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Magnetic Anomaly is the 9th song on the 2013 album Astral Projection by George
Bellas. Several modern compositional devices were used throughout this song,
including a myriad of syncopated odd-meters, poly-harmony, quartal and quintal
harmony, symmetrical scales and more.
The score on the following page is an episode section to Magnetic Anomaly which
begins at 2:27 of the song. This excerpt begins in 7/8 with a symmetrical atonal
sequence using a mode of limited transposition. Measures three and four are
identical to measures one and two except for the transposition. Measure six begins
a series of descending quintuplet arpeggios that end up at the penultimate bar with
an ascending flurry in 10/8 of the atonal mode being used throughout this section.
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At 2:27 mins
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Magnetic Anomaly
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