Harmony Postlude: Mary Had a Little Lamb in Minor
As a precursor to an upcoming discussion on harmonies (or a "postlude," if you will pardon the musical pun), I wanted to rewrite "Mary Had a Little Lamb" again with the same melody but different harmonies, placed in such a way to put it in a minor instead of a major key. This wasn't too hard, as there are only three notes (4 notes in some versions) in the whole song. Here's the minor version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb:" While this is the same exact melody, a change in the harmonies can give the song a different feel, in this case quite sinister and very dark. Since the melody used only DO, RE, and MI in the original key, I turned these into ME, FA, and SOL for the minor version. I've utilized a similar technique for my Piano Sonata to help change the feel of different movements but to connect them together. The first movement is in A minor and starts out in the melody with a B-flat grace note going to the tonic, A. The second move
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