Neo-Gothic Jabberwocky

I've just uploaded my first Neo-Gothic composition, based on the melody the
Cheshire Cat sings The Jabberwocky to in the Disney version of Alice in
Wonderland. I thought it sounded very modal and it struck me that it would
be good for Neo-Gothic harmony, so I wrote some. For the benefit of anyone
so uncultured as not to have read Through the Looking Glass, here are the
words:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Enjoy!
-Keenan P.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, it's tuned in "my" noble fifth temperament,
which I can just barely tell from 12-eq when it comes right down to it!

-Keenan P.

> 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
> Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
> All mimsy were the borogroves,
> And the mome raths outgrabe.

Cool.

Are you aware that Harry Partch
once set these lyrics to music?

-Carl

Keenan Pepper wrote:

> I've just uploaded my first Neo-Gothic composition, based on the melody the
> Cheshire Cat sings The Jabberwocky to [snip] it's tuned in "my" noble fifth temperament,
> which I can just barely tell from 12-eq when it comes right down to it!

?! Sounds xenharmonic to me. Did you listen to it in 12 EDO? Try
them one after the other.

Very nice work, BTW. If I were your Gothic Harmony teacher, I'd
give you an A+! (I guess I should leave the paper grading to
Professor Schulter, though :-)

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