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MageSteff
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Improvisation in the Key of Green E

Improvisation in the Key of E
Reference pages for your perusal (I borrow liberally and use some sentences without attribution to the authors of said information, I in no way claim any as my own work, I am merely sharing with you the beautiful prose I have found.)
Music Theory
http://www.foundation.bw/MusicTheorySummary.htm

Chart of Chords
http://www.apassion4jazz.net/chords.html

Tuning Forks
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1305.htm

John Tyndall, physicist, philosopher and one of the great thinkers of his time
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1670.htm
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1067.htm
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi531.htm
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi857.htm

(First I will ask you to imagine this spoken by Jack Palance (The man who was in "City Slickers" and did the one armed push ups at the Academy Awards, he was also the host of the TV show "Ripley's Believe It or Not")

Get some soda pop or other thirst quenching fluid, something to nosh and get ready for a wild jazz improvisation, a tune I call "Green E," I will be covering a wide expanse of musical styling for your listening pleasure! So relax, kick your shoes off, loosen your ties, undo that top button and be ready to be swept off your feet and soothed by a wall of sound.

I can hear you saying to me "Steff, why are you calling it Green E?"
That's because on the page
http://www.greywethers.net/wpfd.html
As the letters began to fade in the now familiar vechtml, the E in the word "identical" on the page turned green for a little while, just long enough for someone to notice it before it faded into obscurity.

What do we have with window4.html at Greywethers.net
I can hear you saying to me, "Steff, why is this in the Key of E?"
Well you see it is the first Key the sharps noted by Catherwood in this painting make an appearance.
Key of E (i.e. 4 sharps F C G D, or written in the numerical order they would appear, CDFG)
Some have noted chords that once again, disappear as soon as someone has listened to them. Dare I say these chords are Diminished? A Diminished Chord is a triad with step pattern 036, or notes 1, 4 and 7 of the chromatic scale. Notation: Starting note plus "dim" or "o". Example: Bdim or Bo: BDF. The notes of the chord are called the first, minor third, and diminished fifth.

Tree of Life - variation on a theme.
The Base Note of the chord called The ROOT, and of course it anchors the chord much like roots anchor a tree. As you travel upward from the roots, you encounter the trunk, and then the branches which fork out from the trunk. There are forks in Music too, the Tuning fork, used to ensure all the instruments in a group all have the same pitch, so that the musicians do not end up with a discordant sound. But how does one tune a tuning fork? That little problems was ingeniously solved by a man named Lissajous. His clever means for calibrating a new tuning fork against a standard fork involved fixing small mirrors to one tine on each fork. Then he shone a beam of light on one vibrating mirror so it reflected onto the second vibrating mirror and then upon a screen. The result was a steady ellipse if the two forks were in agreement. The figure would swim about if they were not. (See illustration lissajous-tuning fork.jpg) Please note in your study of the picture there is one that looks much like an Hourglass, or a beautiful Butterfly, and that these are caused by discord, or Chaos, entering the system.

I can hear you asking, "How would Lissajous know that light would respond to the motion of the tuning forks?" Perhaps he had read some of the great thinkers of the 19th century. It was an American professor named Le Conte went to an evening gathering. It was a typical lamplit musical party -- a regular kind of social event in the Victorian age. He wrote about it in the 1858 Philosophical Magazine:

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Soon after the music began, I observed that the flame exhibited pulsations that were exactly synchronous with the audible beats. This ... phenomenon was very striking, [especially] when the strong notes of the 'cello came in. It was exceedingly interesting ... how perfectly even the trills ... were reflected on the sheet of flame.

John Tyndall, a real renaissance man, seized that speculation and ran with it. He develops Le Conte's observation into an eighteen-page section called "Sensitive Naked Flames." He did important formative work in sound, light, heat, electricity, bacteriology, glaciology� He laid down the roads that physicists such as Planke, Bohr, Einstein, and Lorenz would use for discoveries that would eclipse his own. If he had know would it have bothered him? I don't believe so. He had many critics, and he had a reputation of dealing with their objections in a matter of fact, calm manner, one that involved no name calling, or denigration of those who had questions about his methods and results. He also knew we would never find the absolute truth through science�.

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Thus, having exhausted science and reached its very rim, the real mystery of existence still looms around us. And thus it will ever loom -- ever beyond the bourne of man's intellect -- giving the poets of successive ages just occasion to declare that,
We are such stuff As dreams are made of,
and our little life Is rounded by a sleep.

And there I shall leave you to your slumber, for it is now time for mine.

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