“Tagicrosago” — W. A. Mathieu’s dark horse — PhrygDorian — extended sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar, crotales, singing saw, gong, tanpura — March 2022 — 5:45 — as loop on a separate tabPhrygDorian — sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar and tanpura — March 2022 — 2:45 — as loop on a separate tabPhrygDorian — short sound sample — 8-string guitar — June 2020 — 1:01 — as loop on a separate tab
W. A. Mathieu in “Harmonic Experience” refers to this intriguing tonality as “Dark Horse” or Mixolydian/Phrygian. He also expresses affinity for its “slightly off-putting mystery.”
The octave of a clustered or melodic tonality includes five whole steps and two half steps (or semitones). This is the same as for diatonic tonalities. However in a clustered tonality, either one single or a group of four consecutive whole steps, one and four alternating, separate the two half steps from each other. While in the far more commonly used diatonic tonalities, there are two and three, not one and four consecutive whole steps.
You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.
Visiting toad before going back to its pond — August 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland
“Ionian prayer in gratitude for the golden heart” — 8-string guitar — February 2021 — 4:44 — as loop on a separate tab
The tonality of the month of September 2022 is Ionian or diatonic major — a regular diatonic heptatonality. Diatonic heptatonalities follow this matrix: The octave includes five whole steps and two half steps (or semitones). Either two or three consecutive whole steps, a pair and a trio, alternate in separating the two individual half steps from each other.
Ionian or diatonic major, the tonality of this month, is most common in Western music. On the piano keyboard it corresponds to the white keys with C as fundamental. It is often the first scale one learns. And it corresponds to the widely known solfège steps Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do.
You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ,or another mantra syllable that suits you.
Partial personal garden bounty — August 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland
This August 2022 Tonalibus update announces the latest personal sound samples and a change in Spiritualibus blog posts. It concludes with a message on therapeutic music and a personal photo.
Personal sound samples and playlist update
Playlist Tonalibus F— So many colors of reality will soon conclude and make room to start Tonalibus G. Because by now Tonalibus F already consists of ten pieces and offers some 102 minutes of meditative new music. Most recent additions, which are also under Sounds in Summer 2022, include: “Individual bhajan” — a progression experiment, and “Gratitude in advance” — a true gift.
“Individual bhajan” — concieved as theme for a personal theater production — Phrygian, ReachMin, ReachMix, Mixolydian — 8-string guitar, tingsha cymbals, gong, and double voice — 13:08 — as loop on a separate tab“Gratitude in advance” — inspired by a gift of true love prepared before the first encounter— HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — 7-string guitar, 8-string guitar, crotales, gong, and tampura — 6:10 — as loop on a separate tab
August 2022 Spiritualibus blog update
In recent months it was possible to add comments to new posts on the Spiritualibus Blog. However as of now this capability is no longer available. It was turned off because there were more comments from unidentifiable sources and potential hackers coming in than usable contributions.
“Perhaps you have had this experience. You or a loved one is struggling with pain, depression, fear, sleeplessness, or loss of will. Then someone steps in to say, ‘Let me be with you, just as you are.’ The offer is to share space and music with another without words, judgment or objective to change or modify the other, and without expectation of praise or reward. Many times, music accompanies the sacred liminal space between now and what is to come. This is the role of the therapeutic musician.
“The certified therapeutic musician is a highly trained professional whose objective is to provide intentional music at the bedside and other settings to work together with the other’s mood, body rhythms, culture, and musical preferences to provide comfort care. The anecdotal as well as documented evidence of the benefits of therapeutic music are extensive. Among other valuable results, therapeutic music has been shown to move heart rate, blood pressure, and respirations to more optimal levels and to ease anxiety and reduce pain. This musical support is accomplished at a very low cost and without negative side effects.”
HexaBluNa or HexaLolo— calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — November 2021 — 2:54 — as loop on a separate tabHexaBluNa or HexaLolo— rhythmic sound sample — 8-string guitar — November 2021 — 2:23 — as loop on a separate tab
The tonality of the month of August 2022 is HexaBluNa or HexaLolo, a Blu(e) hexatonality. Its first name, HexaBluNa, indicates that this is a hexatonality based on the first few Na(tural) harmonics with the addition of the Blu(esy) minor third and quart in the lower tetachord. Its second name is HexaLolo. This indicates that the lower tetrachord is the lowest possible or Lolo version of Reach. And the upper tetrachord contains just the minor seventh. A distinguishing feature of this tonality is the presence of two consecutive half tone steps. They juxtapose and allow this tonality to blend the contrasting common notions of minor and major side by side unified as one.
You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.
Summer sun gradually progressing towards the horizon — July 2022 — Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota
This July 2022 Tonalibus update highlights some website changes. It announces the new main menu language selection and links to the Tonalibus / Ulrico pages on some major global music platforms. First though, it presents the latest playlist and sound sample additions. And it concludes with a spiritual reminder quote and a an fascinating 8-second video clip.
Playlist and sound sample updates
“New moon rising” — a sensitive welcome — 4:52 — 8-string guitar — ReachNaBal — as loop on a separate tab
New additions to playlist Tonalibus F and/or the Summer 2022 collection of personal sound samples include the following pieces: 1) “New moon rising” — a sensitive welcome — 4:52 — 8-string guitar — ReachNaBal — (above) 2) “Let’s talk” — a personal manifesto — 13:21 — double 8-string guitar, voice, and gongs — based on the four corners of the sound temple, from PentaCor, via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back 3) “Let’s listen” — a personal meditation — 13:21 — double 8-string guitar and gongs — based on the four corners of the sound temple, from PentaCor, via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back — plain instrumental version of “Let’s talk” without voice — (under Summer 2022) 4) And there are corresponding new extra tonality sound samples for ReachNaBal and PentaCor.
July 2022 Tonalibus update on menu options and translations
The page Contact of this website is now accessible as the last secondary menu option under About.
Under Start you now find links to the Tonalibus / Ulrico pages on some major music platforms.
The language selection option for English, German, French, or Italian is now a main menu option.
The Tonalibus website currently experiences isolated translation problems. In English all works well. But in German, French, and Italian some links that target a specific place in the body of a page land on the top of the target page instead of the desired location on that page. This happens e.g. with the link Blog Posts by Month, a secondary main menu option under Spiritualibus Blog, with some links as loop with recent sound samples, or with some tonality subgroup menu links like for Pentatonalities. The provider of the currently used translation engine is busy working on resolving this.
An old spiritual reminder quote as July 2022 update
“I have no special message to give but to remind you of the teaching of Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji, which he impressed on us all through his life and which constitutes the essence of the teachings of the saints of all times. What is their mission in this world? Saints are men of God, who come here on a mission of mercy to lead the suffering humanity back to the feet of God. That is their only mission in life. They come not to divide but to unite and are above the narrow distinctions of caste and creed. They do not wish to create new sects or castes, though when they pass away, their followers lose sight of their real teachings and take to various types of ritualism and narrow down the teachings, meant for the whole humanity, to particular sects and schools. This gives rise to castes or creeds and even bigotry and fanaticism; but there are no such differences in saints.
“Saints of all ages and countries have the same message to give, the same truth to teach. They tell us that the soul is a spark of the divine flame, but its light here is dimmed by mind and maya. They teach us how to pierce these veils and get united again to our source or origin.”
Message to overseas disciples in 1957 from Maharaj Charan Singh
A maple leaf, angular tracks, and freedom of light
Sunlight through foliage caressing the ground around a maple leaf — 8 seconds — July 2022 — Chanhassen, MN
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