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Death Note - Low of solipsism

The anime “Death note” tells us the events lived by Light Yagami, a high school student, who finds a notebook that is capable of eliminating anyone just by having his name and seeing his face. Deciding to do his own justice under the pseudonym “Kira”.

“Low of solipsism” (composed by Hideki Taniuchi & Yoshihisa Hirano) is the name of the song that is heard when Kira (and later Mikami) begins to kill with the death note, a work that reflects in the first part the entire magnitude of power of the notebook added to Kira’s determination to achieve her goals. and in a second section it reflects the feeling it means to play God.

The first section is in the key of D minor, using a solid black bass interleaving the D and F notes creating a feeling like a trance or a call to the supernatural. the melody uses a male voice chorus (to make Kira’s determination feel), with a rhythmic motif which begins with a quarter note setback, which later adds a female chorus to increase the intensity of the work which repeats the motif an octave higher, following the following harmony that is repeated throughout this section:

Dm | % | Bb / D | % |

The second section is presented as a Gregorian chant in Doric D (D - E - F - G - A - B - C - D), and this is very interesting since this mode in that tonality is the same as that established in the age media (due to a modal restructuring since before the Doric mode began in E) and that it had a lot of use in liturgical song. That is why listening to it like this connects us with the whole divine atmosphere that this mode carries, giving us an impression of how it would feel to achieve a goal with such power.

Something interesting is the beginning of the work the use of the chord E ° 7 (E - G - Bb - C #) to go to Dm, and it is that the common thing would be to use the A7 (A - C # - E - G) and to certify that I go to a minor chord to use A7 (b9) (A - C # - E - G - Bb), if we remove the head of the “A” chord from this last chord we will obtain the notes C # - E - Bb - G which are the same notes that form the chord of E ° 7 (but in another order), allowing us to go to Dm without problem and in a surprising way.

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