Alissa
This is so cool... this is one for the music lovers out there, and I'm afraid it may not make sense unless you read music. But if you're clairaudient like me, it's unbelievably cool.
Recently while discussing the Seven of Cups, I associated the very structured placement of the cups as musical notes, actually as a fingering exercise for piano. One - Three - Two - Four - One - Three - Two.
In the key of C (major or minor... I prefer minor, and I will use C as the key I'm transcribing to for all the tunes in this message) :
C - E - D - F - C - E - D
It's a haunting little refrain, if ever there was one, and the image shows a woman who appears to have opened a Pandora's box, with demons unleashed as she listens to the tune.
September Pixie was clever enough to include this link, played on the harp, for those who wish to hear it :
http://www.everfall.com/pixie/harp.mp3
I hear the melody played two octaves above this version (i.e. one octave above Middle C) and more staccato, like a music box~!
But melodies can resonate at any level for the reader/listener, which is what is brilliant about these musical messages.
September Pixie mentioned she found more notes, which led me to grab my deck this morning. And thanks to her tip, I was flabbergasted to find MANY cards that suggest a tune!
This music box tune was the only one I found for the Cups suit.
The next most prevalent suit with music was the Wands. Some of these transcriptions take some imagination, but are worth the peek if you're game.
The Seven of Wands, a gargoyle perched with flaming red pendants (like notes) around him. This one seems to jump the octave, and I've roughly translated as :
D - C - High C - A - B - E - B
Very strange melody, and if you factor in the spaces between the wands, there are some interesting ways to add "rests" to the transcribed notes above that I didn't yet add in to this version.
(Really, if you add some musical theory to any of the following tunes, you could really work up some catchy melodies indeed, but this is my attempt to just transcibe the visual images into music).
The Nine of Wands, our Black Widow is holding a wand, which I've not transcribed, however next to her is the following melody :
C - E - D - A - D - F - B - D
This is is difficult transcription, but also very strange and haunting. Almost sounded, to me, like this Black Widow's theme song of sorts.... In the minor key, it's more effective.
The Ten of Wands, a long melody for 10 notes. Our graceful ghost descends the stairs, greeting us. The melody is kinda strange, disjointed, as if it almost picks up a tune, then abandons it for another.
C - F - D - G - Low B - E - Low B - G - E - A
I see no rests in this tune, as fi each note is a quarter note, with no pauses between.
Lastly, the Swords suit. The suit with the most tunes to hear, and some of the most complex. This took some doing on the piano to pick apart, and others might see a slightly different version if tempted to transcribe their own cards for themselves.
The 5 of Swords, the gleering jester clown. Oh this is classic, folks. Really...
If you take the stairs to be the treble clef, the following notes appear where the skulls are sitting around his feet :
High C - A [Rest] F - High C - A
Nah-nah.. ne-nah nah.... the classic children's "ha-ha" song we all know! And if that isn't the atmosphere of the Vargo's Five of Swords, I don't know what is....
The Seven of Swords, this tune MUST be played in the minor key for the proper effect, of that I'm sure. Again, use the steps as the treble clef.
C - E - G [Rest] E [Rest] G - E - C
This is a simple arpeggio-like tune, but if played in the minor key, it becomes a bit more suited to the dark bat woman we see poised over these notes.
The Nine of Swords, another must-be-minor tune. Our wicked gargoyle with the flaming red eyes would have it no other way, of this I'm sure. There are no rests in this tune :
C - B - A - C - E - D - C - B - C
And lastly, the 10 of swords. To be honest, I haven't the right mind to unravel this tune yet. As I look at these swords, I am tempted to see not just notes, but half-notes as well, and this morning I am rushed to get going, but obsessed with sharing these discoveries first.
So the 10 of swords will wait for now. And I hope others with instruments and/or the Gothic Vargo will enjoy these musical mad woman ramblings in the meantime!
Have I mentioned lately how much I love this deck???
Recently while discussing the Seven of Cups, I associated the very structured placement of the cups as musical notes, actually as a fingering exercise for piano. One - Three - Two - Four - One - Three - Two.
In the key of C (major or minor... I prefer minor, and I will use C as the key I'm transcribing to for all the tunes in this message) :
C - E - D - F - C - E - D
It's a haunting little refrain, if ever there was one, and the image shows a woman who appears to have opened a Pandora's box, with demons unleashed as she listens to the tune.
September Pixie was clever enough to include this link, played on the harp, for those who wish to hear it :
http://www.everfall.com/pixie/harp.mp3
I hear the melody played two octaves above this version (i.e. one octave above Middle C) and more staccato, like a music box~!
But melodies can resonate at any level for the reader/listener, which is what is brilliant about these musical messages.
September Pixie mentioned she found more notes, which led me to grab my deck this morning. And thanks to her tip, I was flabbergasted to find MANY cards that suggest a tune!
This music box tune was the only one I found for the Cups suit.
The next most prevalent suit with music was the Wands. Some of these transcriptions take some imagination, but are worth the peek if you're game.
The Seven of Wands, a gargoyle perched with flaming red pendants (like notes) around him. This one seems to jump the octave, and I've roughly translated as :
D - C - High C - A - B - E - B
Very strange melody, and if you factor in the spaces between the wands, there are some interesting ways to add "rests" to the transcribed notes above that I didn't yet add in to this version.
(Really, if you add some musical theory to any of the following tunes, you could really work up some catchy melodies indeed, but this is my attempt to just transcibe the visual images into music).
The Nine of Wands, our Black Widow is holding a wand, which I've not transcribed, however next to her is the following melody :
C - E - D - A - D - F - B - D
This is is difficult transcription, but also very strange and haunting. Almost sounded, to me, like this Black Widow's theme song of sorts.... In the minor key, it's more effective.
The Ten of Wands, a long melody for 10 notes. Our graceful ghost descends the stairs, greeting us. The melody is kinda strange, disjointed, as if it almost picks up a tune, then abandons it for another.
C - F - D - G - Low B - E - Low B - G - E - A
I see no rests in this tune, as fi each note is a quarter note, with no pauses between.
Lastly, the Swords suit. The suit with the most tunes to hear, and some of the most complex. This took some doing on the piano to pick apart, and others might see a slightly different version if tempted to transcribe their own cards for themselves.
The 5 of Swords, the gleering jester clown. Oh this is classic, folks. Really...
If you take the stairs to be the treble clef, the following notes appear where the skulls are sitting around his feet :
High C - A [Rest] F - High C - A
Nah-nah.. ne-nah nah.... the classic children's "ha-ha" song we all know! And if that isn't the atmosphere of the Vargo's Five of Swords, I don't know what is....
The Seven of Swords, this tune MUST be played in the minor key for the proper effect, of that I'm sure. Again, use the steps as the treble clef.
C - E - G [Rest] E [Rest] G - E - C
This is a simple arpeggio-like tune, but if played in the minor key, it becomes a bit more suited to the dark bat woman we see poised over these notes.
The Nine of Swords, another must-be-minor tune. Our wicked gargoyle with the flaming red eyes would have it no other way, of this I'm sure. There are no rests in this tune :
C - B - A - C - E - D - C - B - C
And lastly, the 10 of swords. To be honest, I haven't the right mind to unravel this tune yet. As I look at these swords, I am tempted to see not just notes, but half-notes as well, and this morning I am rushed to get going, but obsessed with sharing these discoveries first.
So the 10 of swords will wait for now. And I hope others with instruments and/or the Gothic Vargo will enjoy these musical mad woman ramblings in the meantime!
Have I mentioned lately how much I love this deck???