Whenever the people sing in the streets, Los Doggies Dot Com is there to investigate. Years ago we covered the Occupy protests and the Women’s March. Recently, our intrepid musicologists went down to the City (what people from New York call “Manhattan”) to cover the Hands Off protest—a giant parade where you could get your […]
Archive of posts tagged Minor Third
An Hadouken
An hadouken is the classic fireball from Street Fighter II: Double Turbo Champion Hyper Alpha Little Fiery Celebrity Home Edition. Now that was a good game. At my local comic store L & S, there was a line stretching out the door to play the arcade coin-op of SF2. I used to grab a slice […]
Poison Melody
In 1990, hip-hop trio Bell Biv Devoe released Poison. B.B.D. was the first concert I ever saw. Gerardo and C+C Music Factory opened. B.B.D. came on stage in those tubes from the end of E.T. I’m not sure why I was listening to such sexually-charged music in grade school, but songs like “Do Me” seem […]
Tiger Third
Sagat from Street Fighter II is known for his tiger fireballs and tiger uppercuts. The “tiger” in question is a Minor Third interval from the E-flat down to the C.
Snake Charmer
The ‘Snake Charmer’ is a popular melody for evoking the Middle East. Here it is in the key of E minor. The Snake Charmer melody comes from a song called “The Streets of Cairo” written by showman and congressman Sol Bloom. Bloom was the entertainment director of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, and […]
Sega Melodies
The famous intro sound of the 16-bit Sega Genesis, which I assume is a choir of Japanese dudes with the most lovely singing voices in the world. What we have here is an interval of a minor third between two major chords: Eb Major to a C Major sung in parallel harmony. The chords appear […]
Black Unstemmed Noteheads
The second song off our new album is a bright up-tempo tune with a whole-tone hook. Drag over the black stemmed noteheads. “Black Unstemmed Noteheads” is a song about songs—a kind of metasong if you will, and I know you will. If this blog could write songs, it would sound like this. A kind of […]
