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I’m ot sure if it’s still true, but in recent times it was against the law in Mainland China for a sole individual to compose music. Under law, only people’s committees could write music and it could only be in a major key.
I have a Chinese piano concerto, “The Yellow River Concerto”, named for the major river in the country, and at first it is very beautiful, but after awhile the major tonality becomes very tiring, like too much candy. Music and all art depends on contrast for its ultimate power.
Now that the sermon is over, I think we have a situation where we could compose a new birthday song by committee, and since it would be short, a major key is appropriate.
I’ll get it started. We will need the word “birthday”, unless we can coin another word that means birthday.
Here’s what we have so far….
“Birthday!”
