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OK this is bothering me:
The Simpsons theme definitely starts out with a major 3rd then a major 2nd, doesn't it? Those add up to a tritone but it's not a single note change!
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought the
Simpsons theme started with a diminished 5th that then resolved into a perfect 5th. I don't know what key it is off-hand, but if we pretend it starts on C, the next two notes are F#-G.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh! Curtis! It's the very beginning of the theme, with the choir of heavenly voices that sings "THE SIMP-SONS!" Before the woodwinds come in.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Take On Me! OMG, that's so obvious now they've mentioned it (and is the thing my little tune was reminding me of!).
Although it's the first two notes of the chorus rather than of the whole song, so it's still not quite the right answer.
― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
seven months pass...
also related, from the Marina Records website:
richard carpenter once said:
"I love major sevenths", and so do we!
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
For as long as I can remember, I've had a bias against this interval. Rather, the interval, divorced of a chord, is pretty cool, but a chord of 1-3-5-maj7 to me has *always* been something to dread, unless it was inserted in so completely an out-of-the-blue moment that I couldn't process it as a "lame melodramatic chord". I don't know why I have a problem with the major-maj7 chord, but I do. (I suspect the physics of this chord resolve into more consonances than the more-agreeable-to-me major-minor7, or major-9 w/minor7)
That said, a melody jumping from 1 to maj7 is pretty bold. I've tried this myself, and it's hard to fuck up; the interval is so large, and since you don't actually end up jumping an octave, it's also very dramatic. I wish I could make amends w/the chord.
― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link