D Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 1

A violet shadow in a descending waltz. The étude opens at F#6 — a pale yellow-orange — and falls in triple time toward D1, but somewhere mid-descent an A# appears, its harmonic-chromatic violet a cool intrusion among the warm greens and yellow-oranges of D Major. Seven notes, legato, the long phrase finding its resolution in the dark bass.

A# is not a chord tone of this key. On the canvas it reads as a violet accent: a small cool note among the warm fields, a brief passing shadow that the étude acknowledges before continuing its descent. The line falls from light toward dark, the waltz rhythm carrying it gently downward.

Seven notes across the full keyboard from D1 to F#6 — dense, a long falling phrase with one unexpected color held within it.