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Hi Guys,
Today, a look at the mighty “Farben” chord from Arnold Schoenberg’s five pieces for orchestra.
What is the “Farben” Chord?
This a C Augmented chord with a Maj7th and a 13th [or 6th].
The way that the notes are spaced/voiced creates a unique and dramatic flavour.
Below, is a quick piece of orchestration that I composed to display this.
Here, is the Farben chord voicing:
Now, let’s play this as an arpeggio outline:
This time we will extend it to two octaves.
From here, we will create a chordal picking guitar vamp from this chord voicing. [Careful, with your fingers as the intervals require a bit of a stretch]
Here, is the vamp.
Here, is another vamp idea:
RE VOICING:
Another, lovely sound that we get [thinking from the relative minor] is AmMaj7/9.
This voicing works beautifully on the guitar creating a colourful resonance:
Now, let’s play it as an arpeggio outline:
From here, we will extend this to create an ascending line:
Finally, we will make another voicing.
If we take the top part, we can create a nice lick from it. This gives a sort of modal improvised line impression.
[Side thought: Unordered 01348: s Forte number is 5-z17, in the taxonomy of Allen Forte].
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