Classical, Song shiihs
I died for beauty

This song, based on a somewhat creepy poem of Emily Dickinson is written in mode of binary internal symmetry (2)102. This heptatonic mode consists of the 7 notes C Db E F G Ab B. With the exception of a single note (can you find it :D ?), only these notes are used throughout the piece. The second stanza features harmonies made by stacking consecutive notes from this mode (in some inversion), lending the piano part an eerie sound. I've replaced the singing with a synthetic oboe, but if you feel like you could and want to sing this piece,
feel free to contact me for collaboration. More information about these modes of internal symmetry can be found on my blog: a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2...ook-at-his.html

I Died For Beauty

I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth - the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a-night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
Emily Dickinson