203 - Ode to a Green Comet

On the average I avoid any kind of analysis or discussion of the actual musical content posted here, mostly because there isn’t really that much to discuss when dealing with primarily tonal ABA form melodies with regular phrase lengths, however, I thought some of you might find it interesting that when played together as a chord the four notes that make up the ostinato in this piece contain every interval from a minor 2nd to a tritone (larger intervals being, of course, merely inversion of the smaller ones). Also known as an all interval tetrachord, its basically a tone cluster made up of as few notes as possible. There’s a couple of four note combinations that have this characteristic before you begin to explore inversions and transpositions, but this is its most compact form.

I once composed a lengthy work for wind ensemble containing nothing but chords of this nature Borborygmi for wind ensemble. Maybe someday it’ll be performed!