Stuck Inside

Описание

Alright. What we have here is the result of being stuck indoors with the snow storm and nothing to do but compose an obligatory "snowy sounding" piece.
In three paragraphs I'll describe what you're hearing. The first paragraph is a rundown for the layman, the second is a more in depth explanation, to flex my music degree, and the third is my philosophy of music (how it's the composer's responsibility to use music theory that affects him/her and try to paint you a picture of a "scene" and make you feel a certain way).
Musically, brevity has been my style. I feel like 2 minutes of your time while you're scrolling through Facebook on the toilet is a lot to ask for. Your legs are probably getting numb. I appreciate you coming this far. The piece goes as follows:
starts with a bouncy intro
then a melody of only 3 different notes (hereby known as the "motive") appears (00:12-00:21)
afterwards, a melody joins the motive (hereby known as the "countermelody") (00:32-00:46)
Which brings us to a section that outlines the opening chords (00:47-1:06)
The motive comes back with long arpeggios (1:07-1:27)
The intro doubles as an outro (1:28-1:49)
And there it is. It was as easy as ABCABA.
Ok the technical side as promised. I'll go ahead and try to tag it as ABB'CA'B''A''. It's in the key of Db. I've heard people say the more flats you have the mellower the sound. Not sure how that works but that's what they say. So I went with Db for its five flats. The intro's chord progression is the most modern I've ever used: ii7-IM7. You might recognize it as the opening chords to "These Eyes". In fact all the chords in this piece are sevenths. Almost always it's minor sevenths for minor chords and major sevenths for major chords. In my opinion if these chords had a color it would be blue. The motive is a descending major third and a descending perfect fourth. Sounds simple, static, and still. The countermelody in the C section is something I borrowed from an unpublished piece I wrote in December (and by unpublished I mean marked as private on YouTube). I liked it and it made sense economically to get to some extra miles on it. The chord progression in the C section is (BM7-EM7-AM7-DM7-GM7)-FM7-EbM7-Bm7. The chords in the parentheses, you might recognize as the keys on the circle of fifths going counter clockwise. I think it has a cooling off/slowing down effect effect. A, you know, gentle swaying motion like the feather in Forrest Gump floating down.
Musical representation is subjective. The composer and artist tries to communicate to you with arbitrary symbols of their choice. So, to the best of my ability (the key I chose, the seventh chords [blue colors], the descending motive, and the descending polyphonic sequence of the motive and counter melody going along the cooling chord progression around the circle of fifths) was my attempt to paint the picture of snow.
TL;DR I was snowed in and bored so I try to justify music theory to represent a scene being stuck indoors over a snowy weekend.