The intervals in the first brass chord of David Horne's Emerging Dances are whole tones
The first chord played by the brass in Emerging Dances is made up of three notes which are all a whole tone apart from each other.
You can hear the brass at the beginning of the piece on this Explorer close-up.
Try clicking ‘Focus on part’ in the Horn and then the Trumpet parts to listen to them on their own.
Or mute the Trombone so you can hear the horn and trumpet together. The interval (distance) between these two notes is a whole tone and these are the first two notes of the common pentatonic scale.
If you use ‘Focus on part’ to listen to the Trumpet on its own and then the Trombone on its own, you can hear that they’re the same interval apart – a whole tone. These are the second and third notes of the common pentatonic scale.
And if you listen to the whole thing together, you can hear the first three notes of the pentatonic scale making up a chord of whole tones. Whole-tone chords like this can be heard all the way through Emerging Dances.
