The Codices, part 3
J.S. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 13 I discussed the Codex solo album series in these blog posts: The Codices, part 1 The Codices, part 2 Liner Notes for the Codex series Recently, a friend asked what makes a solo piece a Codex piece. I thought that was a good question and probably deserving of a blog post to explain. The Codex compositions are all very polytonal. Mostly due to my two-handed technique on the double-necks wherein I simultaneously have one hand on each neck, and each hand is producing an independent line or lines or harmonic structures. Or, to put it another way: two-part (or two-voice) compositions. Not all the doubleneck instruments are in the same register; some are in contra E tuning, and others are in sub-contra D and sub-contra C tuning. Additionally all the doubleneck instruments have differing tunings on each neck, such that each instrument is a defacto polytonal environment within itself. This greatly adds to the polyt...
