Jacob Collier, Part 2
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
What Do You Think About Negative Harmony?
I thought I would have to sit here and pretend to understand Benjamin Britten. That was making me very nervous. They say Britten's harmony is not defined by something in and of itself, but here's how they relate it to you. Maybe this is why you liked it so much. Your negative harmony uses what theorists call inversion. It's the idea that if you have a melody that goes... When you reverse every direction, what goes up must go down. So the reflection of this is this.
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