Re: sheet music

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Michael,

> Do you mean the keyboard ostinato motiv?
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>         Chords an lyrics you should easily find on the internet.
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>         Anyway, here's the keyboard motiv. Might have to be transposed.
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      Thanks for transcribing the keyboard line!

Just one suggestion: While avoiding ces and fes might seem to simplify the notation, I think in reality it's easier to keep to the actual diatonic structure so as to avoid suggesting chromaticism where there's none.

Basically, one might view this piece (its chords being G♭ F♭ C♭ or, if you prefer, F♯ E B) as
- having G♭/F♯ as a root, with a double plagal harmonic pattern I ♭VII IV
- having C♭/B as a root with a harmonic pattern starting on the dominant: V IV I
(I hope I can get away without a flamewar about which of those viewpoints is "more correct" :-).)

In the first case, the "natural" key would be

\key ges \mixolydian (or \key fis \mixolydian),

in the second case

\key ces \major (or \key b \major),

both of which lead to the same key signatures. Since you 5 sharps are more common than 7 flats, I'd suggest the following:

\version "2.25.13"

\paper {
  indent = 0
}

\header {
  title = "Kim Smoltz"
  subtitle = \markup \override-lines #'(baseline-skip . 2.5) {
    \column \center-align {
      "from the „Mollusk Sessions“"
    }
  }
  composer = \markup \override-lines #'(baseline-skip . 2.5) {
    \column \right-align {
      %"Ween, 1995"
      "Ween"
    }
  }
}

global = {
  \key ges \mixolydian
  \time 4/4
  \partial 2
  \accidentalStyle modern
}

keyboard = \relative f' {
  \global
  \repeat volta 2 {
    r8 ges8 as bes~ |
    bes8 as  ges fes~ fes8 es fes8 ges~ |
    ges8 fes es des~  des8 ces  des8 es~ |
    es8 des  ces bes~  bes8 as  bes8 ces~ |
    ces2
  }
}

\score {
  \transpose fes e \keyboard
  \layout {}
  \midi {
    \tempo 4=108
  }
}

And of course one might also opt for a tonality of \key ges \major (or \key fis \major) which shows the explicit flat 7 if one wants to underline the "mixolydian" interpretation, for example like this:

Lukas