Mirror Harmony [Negative Harmony] Music Theory Lesson

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Negative Harmony Mirror Harmony Lesson: How and Why it works

Here we will take a brief look at the major scale modes and their “Mirror” effect via inversion. When we employ contrary motion we get the same intervals descending as we do ascending. So for example if the Lydian scale ascends  T T T S the scale below descends exactly the same with TTTS.

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Other way around:

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The Dorian mode being “Palindromic” produces the same scale either way.

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Scale extension: 13 note scale

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AUDIO of SCALE extension:

Polytonality and Polymodality Mirror Harmony with Scale:

Each mode of the major scale has it’s mirror [modal] opposite because the whole diatonic scale system can be symmetrically inverted.

Inverted Symmetrical Reflection. The intervals are the same both in harmonisation and contrary motion.

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OR:

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Major scale mirrors

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Polymodality modal mirrors

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Hungarian Minor Polytonal mirrors

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Polytonality exotic scales

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Polytonal Exotic Scales

Polymodality Modes in contrary motion

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Polymodal “Contrary Motion” example

NEGATIVE HARMONY

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Negative Harmony or “INVERSION”

Here we see the opposites in the chords with Minor Reflecting Major and Major reflecting Minor. Diminished stays the same though.

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