Music Theory Mafia (Game Over!) Fin

[AGar]

Oh man...I don't even remember trying to breadcrumb or anything. I was a JOAT, so I was just trying not to get killed. I was gunna get a guilty on AGar N2.

No, you were gonna die N2.

<3

Thanks for having a townread on me though?

[thezmon221]

Singer, what was your action N1 when we delayed you?

[singersigner]

I role-copped AGar, so I was hoping to stick around long enough to get a better read on him since I didn't know I would've gotten a delayed result. >_>

[AGar]

Yeah, I was too paranoid of you.

[Untrod Tripod]

#4

Mafia Goon

#4 is a tone that does not exist in either the major or minor septatonic scale, and so it can only be used to modulate to or tonicize a new tonal area.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

1. You are scum. You may talk at any time in this QT

Prolongation of the Tonic


[color=]Mafia 1-shot Action Delayer[/color]

Passing chords and inversions are used to keep the harmony in motion without actually moving to a new function in the chord progression.

Active Powers:

1. Voting
2. Once during the game, at night, you may target another player. Any action that player takes that night will not happen until the next night phase.

Passive Powers:

1. 1. You are scum. You may talk at any time in this QT

You win when your faction has majority or nothing can prevent that from happening.

Applied Dominant

Mafia 1-shot Gladiator Ability Thief

An applied dominant chord is a chord which changes the tonic scale to create a scale-specific chord of another scale in order to modulate or tonicize. For example, a raised 4th scale degree in the tonic chord could lead to tonicization of or modulation to V. Since the raised 4 does not exist in the scale of the original tonic and is the leading tone of the septatonic scale beginning on the root of the dominant, it sounds as if it belongs to a new tonal area. 1-4-#4-5 in the bass, for example, is a very common way to modulate.

Active Powers:

1. Voting
2. Once during the game, during the first half of a day phase, you may target another player. The vote count will be reset and other players will only be able to vote for you and the targeted player. If the other player is lynched, they will flip vanilla and you will gain any active and/or passive abilities they had.

Passive Powers:

1. You are scum. You may talk at any time in this QT

You win when your faction has majority or nothing can prevent that from happening.

Augmented Sixth Chords

Town Jack of All Trades

Augmented sixth chords are so named because of the interval between the flat sixth scale degree and the raised fourth scale degree. These chords are very harmonically active because both the lowered six and the raised four allow for easy transition into new tonal areas. The augmented sixth chord comes in three "flavors": Italian, which contains only three tones (b6, #4, 1). German, which contains a flat 3rd scale degree of the tonic triad. French, which contains the 2nd scale degree of the tonic scale.

Active Powers:

1. Voting
2. You have three one-shot abilities
a. Watch
b. Track
c. Rolecop

Passive Powers:

None

You win with the town

Perfect Authentic Cadence

Vanilla Town

A perfect authentic cadence is an ending of a chord progression that resolves to the tonic with scale degree 1 in the highest voice and contains scale degree 5 to 1 motion in the lowest voice.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

None

You win with the town

Parallel Fifths

Hated Townie

Parallel fifths occur when two voices a perfect fifth apart move to two notes also a perfect fifth apart. This can generally be avoided with proper voice leading. Like ending sentences with a preposition, this breach of voice leading "grammar" has more to do with tradition than with the parallel fifth sounding unpleasant. Regardless, unless used by a master composer, it is consider serious composing faux pas by the academic theorist community.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

1. It takes one less vote to lynch you than majority. If the game is in LYLO, however, you will need simple majority to be lynched.

You win with the town

Predominant

Vanilla Town

A predominant chord is any chord which in a tonal chord progression which could lead to the dominant. This includes ii, IV, iv, V/V, vi, etc.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

None

You win with the town

Power Chord

Town 1-shot Vig

Power chords, often utilized in rock music, are chords that do not contain the 3rd. These chords, owing to their lack of "quality" sound powerful and grounded in the current tonal area.

Active Powers:

1. Voting
2. Once during the game, at night, you may target another player. That player will be killed.

Passive Powers:

None

You win with the town

Dominant

Vanilla Town

The dominant is the major chord with scale degree 5 as its root. It is almost always a major chord because it requires an unchanged scale degree 7 in order to lead to the tonic, which is almost always its function in Western classical music.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

None

You win with the town

Tonic

Vanilla Town

The tonic is the triad with scale degree 1 as its root.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

None

You win with the town

Church Modes

Town Priest

Church modes are scales that existed before the conventions of tonal harmony were set in place. They are septatonic scales that one can find starting the scale on every tone of the key. Only two, Ionic and Aeolian, have been used widely in Western classical music (they are major and minor respectively), although the other five are used extensively in jazz and post-tonal Western classical music.

Active Powers:

1. Voting

Passive Powers:

1. You cannot cast the final vote of a lynch.

You win with the town

[evilpacman18]

I probably woulda thought parallel fifths was scum.

[thezmon221]

Worst part is I was about to claim C Major Scale Cop. It would have worked too.

[MonkeyMan576]

No it wouldn't have. All the roles are chords, not scales.

[thezmon221]

Church Modes isn't a chord, but nice try. It would only make sense to have a Scale in the game because that defines the rest of the composition.

[thezmon221]

Actually, Church Modes is a scale, nevertheless, Monkey.

[MonkeyMan576]

Okay so there was one scale, but that was very thematically appropriate. I don't think we would have bought your claim. :shrug:

[thezmon221]

I think it was very realistic. Key of C is the most well known key, and C Major is the foundation of the vast majority of Music Theory. It only makes sense that it's a power role too.

[MonkeyMan576]

It makes sense in a general music theory perspective, I just don't think it really fits with the rest of the roles. I was dead though, so I wouldn't have had a vote.

[AGar]

I probably woulda thought parallel fifths was scum.

Hated Townie makes sense for it though.

No it wouldn't have. All the roles are chords, not scales.

Actually, most weren't.

F'real.

[MonkeyMan576]

Chords were the most common type of role compared to scales, etc.

[MonkeyMan576]

#4 - Note
Prolongation of the Tonic - Chord Progression
Applied Dominant - Chord
Augmented 6th - Chord
Perfect Authenthic Cadence - Chord Progression
Parallel 5ths - Chord Progression
Predominant - Chord
Power Chord - Chord
Dominant - Chord
Tonic - Note
Church Modes - Scales

[Untrod Tripod]

must...resist...urge to be a dick....

[evilpacman18]

^

[Paschendale]

Come to the dark side, UT. Give in to your anger. It is your destiny.

[Majiffy]

Well... glad to see the post-game discussion is a lot of music theory dick-swinging.

[AGar]

must...resist...urge to be a dick....

Do it, because it's been 3+ years since I actually took a theory class, and I either want to see you put Monkey in his place or find out from someone who I know knows what they're talking about correct my sorry ass.

[MonkeyMan576]

Well, you know, I *do* write music and have taken music theory classes so I might know a little about what I'm talking about.

[singersigner]

You should check yourself before you wreck yourself.

[Untrod Tripod]

let's all measure our dicks guys

[Majiffy]

7.5