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0:00 Teaser
1:07 The Sound of Phrygian Mode
1:36 The Definition of Phrygian Mode - the Mirror Image of Major Mode
2:41 The Color/Highlight Tone of Phrygian
2:59 Transposed Phrygian (from E down a Major 3rd to C)
3:20 The "fa-mi" Phrygian Inflection
3:48 Phrygian as "mi" scale (Major Mode 3 Rotation)
4:36 Example 1 of Phrygian Melody (Home Alone: Star of Bethlehem)
4:41 Relative Major vs. Parallel Minor Key Signature Approaches
5:25 Example 2 of Phrygian Melody (Star Wars, Episode VI)
5:55 Examining Phrygian Harmony (Late Medieval Cadence)
7:15 Death in Film: Phrygian Passages
7:19 Passage 1 (Superman: Destruction of Krypton)
7:37 Passage 2 (The Patriot: Gabriel's Letter)
8:05 Passage 3 (The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War)
8:44 Phrygian Flamenco Sonority
9:01 Phrygian II Chord: the Neapolitan
9:30 Phrygian Half Cadence
10:00 Phrygian Application: Reharmonization (V7 to vø7)
11:12 Two Famous Phrygian Passages (Liszt and Rachmaninoff)
11:41 Converting Major to Phrygian (Joy to the World)

My name is Christopher Wills and I'm a professional composer, orchestrator and keyboardist for film, television, Broadway musicals and symphony orchestras. You can hear me in blockbuster Hollywood movies and televised concerts. Many know me as "Professor Wills," so I'm also an educator at several universities. My consuming passion is the magic of harmony (progressions, voicings), and I'd like to share that passion with you and empower you to thus expand your chord vocabulary so you may experience a new kind of expressive freedom as you compose and improvise!

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