Diminished 5th
Oumae Kumiko is a song in E minor, a restless arioso, one of plaintive amity.
Meeting her was the anacrusis into the melody: an exuberant march in two, the harmonic line swaying with the beat.
Their relationship was stagnant, a fermata with no direction, no musicality. The sum of their years together in junior high added to just a three page long rest.
Their first interaction was a six beat long solo with the rest of the ensemble awaiting in silence, their resolving note a dissonant chord.
Meeting again was like going back to the segno, but forgetting to take a coda; meeting again was the surprise she had been waiting for.
The first time they hold hands, her heart beats in three, tapping out the waltz that danced around flying affections. But her heart is beating in four; together creating a polyrhythmic counter-melody that turns their concerto into an upbeat jazz, the ad lib solo of the city fading in the background.
The first time they kiss, her pulse accelerandos, accenting the opening staccatos in the vivace of the second suite of their sonata.
The first time they say "I love you," it's like their hearts reach out and drum synchronistically in a cantabile pianissimo.
Together, they make music.
The tone of their voice, the voice that sings though the blooming sounds of their instruments, is the antithesis of the soliloquy in E Minor. Their voice speaks in B major: a coloured chorale that expresses the airy duet of young love.
Loving her is like a major third; their divisi just falls into place and blends as one.
Alt. title: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
sorry this was all over the place lol i hope it makes sense it was going to be an actual story with just a bunch of theory/music history references but it turned into this i hope you guys liked it