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Gospel Music

“Coming up with silly ideas,” said Cooke, “and thinking, ‘this would be fun, how do we work this into the structure of the movie?’ We felt at liberty to do that. Because we weren’t trying to say much. There’s not a lot of earnestness. The points for me are: men can be clueless, or, women are powerful, strong, fun, interesting characters, or you can put queer people in the movie, and it doesn’t necessarily just have to be about them being queer, they can be in a genre movie. All of those things I wanted to say in that movie.” - Drive-Away Dolls

Did they like collaborating enough to direct together again? “Yeah!,” they chime in together. “Honey Don’t” is prepping now in Albuquerque, where they called me from the production office, with the shooting calendar behind them on the wall. “It’s a contemporary private eye crime,” said Coen. “A woman is dead. Is she a traffic fatality or not? Mystery!”

“And we took the detective tropes and swapped them,” said Cooke. “We’ve got the femme fatale woman as the prime detective.”

She’s played by Margaret Qualley.

                                1. Root
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                       2. Pentatonic -> 4. Chromatic -> 5. Temperament -> 6. Expression
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                                       3. Diatonic

White/Encode/Receive & with Simplicity

  1. Root
    • Hymn/Traditional
      • Triads & V7
  2. Pentatonic
    • Worship/Soul (Uptown girl)
      • Sus (2, 4), 6

Black/Code/Know & be Reverent

  1. Diatonic
    • Churchy/Blues
      • Toe the line? Be straight-jacketed? Nah - let's recover stuff: ♭3, ♭5, ♭7?
        • Peter Kasamba?
        • ♭3 has recently been found empirically to center at 6⁄5 (316 cents, a minor third in just intonation, or a slightly sharp minor third in equal temperament) based on cluster analysis of a large number of blue notes from early blues recordings; a "neutral third". This bending or glide between the two tones is an essential characteristic of the blues
        • ♭5 has been found to be quite separate from the perfect fifth and clusters with the perfect fourth with which it is commonly slurred. The eleventh harmonic (i.e. 11⁄8 or 551 cents) is also possible as it is in the middle of the slur between the perfect fourth at 4⁄3 and 7⁄5.
          • That original symbolic association with the devil and its avoidance led to Western cultural convention seeing the tritone as suggesting "evil" in music. However, stories that singers were excommunicated or otherwise punished by the Church for invoking this interval are likely fanciful.
        • ♭7 appears to have two common locations at 7⁄4 (969 cents) and 9⁄5 (1018 cents). It is commonly heard in the barbershop quartet harmonic seventh chord. The barbershop quartet idiom also appears to have arisen from African American origins.
  2. Chromatic 1720
    • Early/Rhythm (And when she wakes up)
      • Secondary dominants & min7♭5
        • But the struggle against Plato, ecclesiastical oppression of millenniums, produced in Europe a magnificent tension of soul, such as had not existed anywhere previously; with such a tensely strained bow one can now aim at the furthest goals

Fab/Decode/Do & on Time

  1. Temperament
    • Late/Jazz
      • Equal temperament allows for ♭9, ♯9, ♭13 & end of the ionian-aeolian distinction
      • The blues has likely evolved as a fusion of an African just intonation scale with European 12-tone musical instruments and harmony. The result has been a uniquely American music which is still widely practiced in its original form and is at the foundation of another genre, American jazz.
  2. Expression
    • Modern/Fusion (Oh oh oh oh)
      • Reverence of all the above as history & evolution
        • As a matter of fact, the European feels this tension as a state of distress, and twice attempts have been made in grand style to unbend the bow.. But we, who are neither Jesuits, nor democrats, nor even sufficiently Germans, we GOOD EUROPEANS, and free, VERY free spirits—we have it still, all the distress of spirit and all the tension of its bow! And perhaps also the arrow, the duty, and, who knows? THE GOAL TO AIM AT....