Ophelia
By Daisy on April 12, 2026 9:42 pm
This piece is in A-crazy Major.This week I used another interpretation of the major scale in that I used the traditional scale formula backwards. Normally the pattern of Whole-step and Half-steps inverted. A regular Major scale has this pattern: WS WS HS WS WS WS HS. I had my scale ascend with HS WS WS WS HS WS WS. It gave a rather other worldly cast to whatever fell out of my head. I got this idea from a book called Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu. I heard about it on the FB page entitled Music Theory. This page is know for always being in a snit about something. I read it because it is so amusing what they fight about. However when this book was mentioned -- they all simmered down and talked very enthusiastically about Harmonic Experience. I actually learned so much from these people when they weren't throwing down the gauntlet every 5 minutes.
Ophelia is a 2018 movie that I just recently watched on Tubi. I loved this! It is Hamlet but from Ophelia's point of view. Very well done. At the end I felt uplifted and not disappointed. Music was great. Costumes were very beautiful. I know these things because for a few years in college I was part of the Society for Creative Anachronism. I played violin in a medieval consort for lots of the dancing done at the feasts that were held. Dancers need someone that can keep a steady beat-- trust a music major for that!
This is my Ophelia. Urgency, energy, romantic beautiful sadness-a relentlessly spirited young girl growing up in a court in Denmark, in love with Hamlet, full of spirit and adventure, and ending with tragedy (ah Shakespeare).
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