Name: Chapter 1.2: The Quincunx
Duration: P00H02M54S
Description: Five sequences of 5 notes (seeds), that can be played in C# Dorian (5 Sharps) or Eb Dorian (5 Flats). Can be in the meter of 5/8, 5/4 or 4/4 as a polyrhythm (5 Against 4). The seeds can be played in any octave, and any chord can be played pandiatonically against the sequences.

Chapter 1.2: The Quincunx

from Music For Places IV: The Rings of Saturn by Lee Barry

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Five sequences of 5 notes (seeds), that can be played in C# Dorian (5 Sharps) or Eb Dorian (5 Flats). Can be in the meter of 5/8, 5/4 or 4/4 as a polyrhythm (5 Against 4). The seeds can be played in any octave, and any chord can be played pandiatonically against the sequences.

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Chapter I, pp. 19-21:

"True to his own prescription, Browne records the patterns which recur in the seemingly infinite diversity of forms; in The Garden of Cyrus, for instance, he draws the quincunx, which is composed by using the corners of a regular quadrilateral and the point at which its diagonals intersect. Browne identifies this structure everywhere, in animate and inanimate matter: in certain crystalline forms, in starfish and sea urchins, in the vertebrae of mammals and the backbones of birds and fish, in the skins of various species of snake, in the crosswise prints left by quadrupeds, in the physical shapes of caterpillars, butterflies, silkworms and moths, in the root of the water fern, in the seed husks of the sunflower and the Caledonian pine, within young oak shoots or the stem of the horsetail; and in the creations of mankind, in the pyramids of Egypt and the mausoleum of Augustus as in the garden of King Solomon, which was planted with mathematical precision with pomegranate trees and white lilies. Examples might be multiplied without end, says Browne, and one might demonstrate ad infinitum the elegant geometrical designs of Nature; however - thus, with a fine turn of phrase and image, he concludes his treatise - the constellation of the Hyades, the Quincunx of Heaven, is already sinking beneath the horizon, and so 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge. We are unwilling to spin out our waking thoughts into the phantasmes of sleep; making cables of cobwebs and wildernesses of handsome groves."

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from Music For Places IV: The Rings of Saturn, released April 2, 2018

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