Musical Witchcraft: Basic Terms and Associations -Western Music
I haven’t yet seen any musical witchcraft posts for those who are very music-oriented, such as those who play instruments or were in a chorus, so here it is! This is based on actual symbolic associations I have learned in music theory, and my experience of being in a school band for 7 years. This post uses the western music theories and scales; I will likely make an eastern one in the future.
How Music Energy Works:
As music energy is very specific, often written for a specific purpose or theme, it is very difficult to change the inherent properties of a song. If you have a composition specifically about fighting, then it will be very hard to redirect the purpose to things other than fighting; if you’ve got a romantic love song, it can’t be re-purposed for things other than romantic love. Even directing it to related things, such as trying to re-purpose a romantic love song to a friendship song, is difficult, nearly impossible, even for experienced energy workers. Additionally, trying to redirect energy from musical instruments that someone is actively playing is also very difficult: unless that person is part of whatever spell you are attempting, that musical energy cannot be controlled by you at all. I found this out when I tried to redirect the energies from my friend’s clarinet while she was playing.
However, when a song or composition is dedicated to that purpose, the energies it produces are very very strong and focused. Thus you can pick songs for your purpose and expect them to work with a high success rate. And you can also compose your own songs with very high precision on what kinds of energy you would like to produce.
Overall Associations:
Major Keys: happiness, wholeness, stability
Bb Major is the most stable key, as it is the easiest to tune and stay in tune, even in bands comprising of 100+ people.
Of the Major scales, Db/C# Major, F# Major, and Gb Major are the least stable as they are beasts to tune and stay in tune, even with small bands.
Minor Keys: Sadness, parts/fragments, somber
Types of Harmonies:
Seconds: Dissonant/chaotic/disharmonious; hearing seconds cause a wish for separation (stop playing that!) because it is irritating to western ears
Thirds: Balance, harmony
Perfect Fourths: Purity, harmony, calm, perfection
Perfect Fifths: Completion, purity, harmony
Types of Special Articulation:
Legato: Soft, gentle, kind; negatively: weak, pathetic
Tenuto: Extending, elongate
Staccato: Sudden, fast, rapid; forceful or abrasive in certain contexts
Marcato: Attention-grabbing; grand
This is just a very basic post meant to be accessible to even beginners in music, so I shall detail more complex parts later! I hope my band geekiness was able to help out some of you!
