Exploring "Goodbye Faraway Peaceful Town"

Goodbye Faraway Peaceful Town: instead of a shepherd in Arcadia, I associate romanesca with town themes.

(Note to reader: these are my earlier blogposts heavy in music theory and meandering in thought. I’ll slowly revisit and backlink posts to clarify things.)

The first half is stepwise romanesca, the latter half if in many repetitions the same as in Pachelbel’s canon. Later in the piece these latter halves tend to ride the descending-fifths sequence rollercoaster.

To peek into this ‘audio dungeon exploration’ before shopping it in the Bandcamp market (for name your gold coins):

In the 0:30 mark the texture starts to sound quite galant. However, I do not understand what the hell is the purpose of the major 7th sonority in the 01:00 mark and the subsequent 7th chords? It does saturate and sweeten things a bit, but incongruently so. Well, perhaps the cool ending minor-major7th sonority permits the use of such oversaturated harmonies.

(LilyPond code)

#(ly:set-option 'resolution 200)
\version "2.24.4"
\language "english"
\pointAndClickOff
\header { tagline = "" }
melody = \relative ef' { e1 d c b a }
bass = \relative c { c1 b a g f }
\score {
  <<
    \time 4/4
    \new Staff { \clef "treble" \melody }
    \new Staff { \clef "bass" \bass }
    \new TabStaff \with {} <<
      \new TabVoice { \melody }
      \new TabVoice { \bass }
    >>
  >>
}

Here’s the recording session video of the piece:

• Wherever The Wind Takes Me

• Romanesca