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Negative Harmony?

Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 7:25 am
by Yellowhammer
I'd like to see a negative harmony option in Canonic Utilities. I can do instant chromatic and diatonic inversions of music there, but no negative harmony. It's a really useful composition tool. Also, a lot of people seem to be jumping up and down about negative harmony all over Youtube because of Jacob Collier, and it's also covered in this book, which mentions Finale with regards to chromatic inversion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCsa9ldlIWU

Re: Negative Harmony?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 3:33 am
by motet
Finale's Canonic Utilities probably date from the 1990s, so there's no chance they'll be updated.

Re: Negative Harmony?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 6:18 am
by Peter Thomsen
I would not hold my breath, waiting for a such feature in Finale.

Instead, I would hire a third party developer.

Re: Negative Harmony?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 7:09 pm
by miker
And so, musical creativity is reduced to formulaic button pushing and drum machines. Feh.

Color me not impressed.

Re: Negative Harmony?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 1:49 am
by motet
I've never heard of negative harmony.

To be fair, Bach did inversion, retrograde, etc., in his compositions. Or, listen to the first movement of Brahms's first symphony, for example.

Re: Negative Harmony?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 1:58 pm
by Jay Emmes
Inversion, retrograde and inverted retrograde are techniques used already in Renaissance polyphony. Nothing new or fancy there.