O Come, O Come Emmanuel by Pseudotonal published on 2023-06-01T23:22:54Z This is the 1st in my series of Chorale Etudes. I wrote these for my family members, beginning with my father and mother and including all my siblings, even the one who died at childbirth. This one is for Dick, my father. Each of them is based on their favorite Christian hymn tune. This one sets up a fabric of melodic perfect 4ths before the slower entrance of the tune. The piece ends with a pedal point in the melody before resolving in a very strange, but beautiful and dramatic, way to a Major 9th chord, with the root moving by a tritone. By "Chorale Etudes" I'm referring to the concept of taking a hymn tune and surrounding it with an elaborate fabric of music. J.S. Bach wrote hundreds of Chorales. These 7 of mine are studies on how to embed the tune so it is virtually hidden. Genre Classical