Category: Tonality of the month/moment

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Tonality of the month: PentaBlue

The October 2021 tonality of the month is PentaBlue, a tritone or blues pentatonality.

PentaBlue — short sound sample — June 2020 — 0:40 loop

The tonality of the month of October 2021 is PentaBlue, a tritone or blues tonality and extra pentatonality. It is the root of the Tonalibus group of tritone or blues tonalities. This group leads from PentaBlue via HexaBlue to PhrygBlue, MinBlue, and BlueMix. These are all present in the Tonalibus catalogue, along with BlueUp, a Reg(ressive) tritone or blues tonality. Now, BlueMin just qualified as a coming addition to this group.

Keep going — home

You always get somewhere, if only you go far enough! Sometimes one may feel or get lost on the way. But especially then, the same applies. Keep going! Go further, and you will get somewhere. Trust and confidence carry on and on. Stopping brings demise in most cases. However, most everyone likes to have a place to call home, to stay and return to after explorations. Fortunately though, the world is round. If you go all the way, you will come around back home — but from the opposite side than from which you left it. Thus it will look different. But if it’s really your home, you will recognize it and not pass by.

An inspiring quote

“It is the man who thinks he may live as freely as his unconsidered desires prompt him who does not see the reckoning of such an attitude. He is binding his life to a hollow dream if he persists in this thought. If he has had the experience of knowing his true self, there will never be any hatred for another.” — The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One and Two, Paul Twitchell, p. 198

Sound mantra

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using Ōṁ / Aum ॐ, HU, or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

Tonality of the month: PentaBlue
Illumination before sunrise over a horizon of Alpine mountains — September 2021 — Grächwil, Switzerland
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Tonality of the month: TetraNa

The September 2021 tonality of the month is TetraNa, a Na tonality and tetratonality.

1) TetraNa — short sound sample, rhythmic — August 2021 — 1:44 loop
2) TetraNa — short sound sample, calm — August 2021 — 1:51 loop
3) TetraNa with a touch of Mixolydian — double 8-string guitar, gong, singing saw — August 2021 — 10:31

The tonality of this month of September is TetraNa, a Na(tural harmonics) tonality and exceptional tetratonality. Because it is the only tetratonality currently in the Tonalibus catalogue, it is listed along with pentatonalities. It is the first, most fundamentally pure Na tonality because it contains only the first four natural overtones. Na tonalities are uniquely harmonious and ideally span over multiple octaves, preferably three or four. They follow the sequence of natural harmonics or overtones and eventually form an arch with secondary harmonics turning into tertiary ones (or reciprocals) and thus lead to more commonly known tonalities. TetraNa is the entry point to this progression. Na(tural harmonics) tonalities will soon appear in the Tonalibus catalogue.

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

Tonality of the month: TetraNa
Tonalibus office and balcony before sunrise — August 2021 — Grächwil, Switzerland

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Tonality of the month: PentaPro or PentaNa

The August 2021 tonality of the month is PentaPro or PentaNa, a Pro, Na, and extra pentatonality.

1) PentaPro / PentaNa — short sound sample, rhythmic — 0:46 loop
2) PentaPro / PentaNa — short sound sample, calm — 1:16 loop
3) PentaPro / PentaNa — triple 8-string guitar — July 2021 — 4:36 loop

The tonality of this month of August is PentaPro / PentaNa, a Pro, Na, and extra pentatonality. It is a Pro(gressive) tonality because it omits the regressive quart. It is a pure Na tonality because it contains only primary and secondary natural overtones. Harmonics or overtones are fundamental to harmony. Thus Na tonalities are uniquely harmonious and span over multiple octaves, preferably three or four. They follow the sequence of natural harmonics or overtones and form an arch with secondary harmonics turning into tertiary ones (or reciprocals) and thus lead to more commonly known tonalities. Na(tural harmonics) tonalities will soon appear in the Tonalibus catalogue.

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

Tonality of the month: PentaPro / PentaNa
Can you see it? The world might be at least partially round after all… — Grächwil/Meikirch, Switzerland
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Tonality of the month: ReachUp

The July 2021 tonality of the month is ReachUp — a Reach heptatonality.

1) ReachUp — short sound sample, rhythmic — 0:40 loop — plays until stopped or you go to another page on this tab.
2) ReachUp — calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — June 2021 — 2:24 loop
3) ReachUp — calm sound sample, expanded — triple 8-string guitar and bass — June 2021 — 7:11 loop

The tonality of this month of July is ReachUp, a partially anchored Reach or harmonic heptatonality. It is also known as double harmonic minor, Gypsy minor, and Hungarian minor. It contains two Reach steps or augmented seconds. Because of the rised one in the lower tetrachord, its Tonalibus name became ReachUp. The tritone and major seventh help form the two Reach steps and contribute to braking up the otherwise pronounced minor tendency of this tonality.

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

Tonality of the month: ReachUp
Alpine lake mirroring mountains, clouds, and sky — June 2021 — Lake Brienz, Switzerland
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Tonality of the month: LydDorian or ClusterPro

The June 2021 tonality of the month is LydDorian / ClusterPro — a Cluster / melodic heptatonality.

1) LydDorian / ClusterPro — rhythmic sound sample — 0:49 loop — plays until stopped or you go to another page on this tab.
2) LydDorian / ClusterPro — calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — May 2021 — 1:03 loop
3) LydDorian / ClusterPro — expanded sound sample — 8-string guitar — May 2021 — 3:36 loop

LydDorian or ClusterPro, known also as acoustic scale or Lydian dominant, consists of fascinating harmonic traits. Its most contrasting two pitches are the tritone and minor seventh. They appear more harmonic when initially approached from above, not from below. After introducing them from above, they gradually become more palatable also when approached from below.

This was a personal discovery. It reversed the previous rejection of this so-called acoustic scale from the Tonalibus catalogue of anchored tonalities. Now this tonality became the latest catalogue addition, after discovering its delicate harmonic qualities and intricate anchoring. Before, it had appeared insufficiently harmonious. But the deficiency was because of not seeing its qualities and not knowing how to use them harmoniously.

Finding qualities of harmony

There seems to be some wisdom in this, a valuable lesson of harmony going well beyond music. If something appears insufficiently harmonious, apparently disturbing tones or elements may actually integrate when approaching them form another angle. In the mentioned tonality it was from above instead of from below. Something to contemplate!

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

Tonality of the month: LydDorian or ClusterPro
Full moon over sunset clouds and Alps, May 2021, Grächwil, Switzerland