# dingaba — a doorbell music-box welcome for synthesized marimba. # # Style: cute weird syllabic phrasing of the whistlegraph platter. # The unspoken lyric is the small ceremony of arriving at a friend's # door — ringing the bell, waiting, hearing footsteps, the door # opening to a warm hello. Glockenspiel is the doorbell itself, # kalimba is the offbeat sparkle (sunlight on the welcome mat), # bass marimba is the steady heartbeat of being expected, and # rosewood thirds enter underneath when the door actually opens. # # This is marimbaba's neighborly sibling. Same lane, same # whistlegraph DNA, a friend-house vibe: bright Eb major, gentle # 4/4 at 110 BPM, no haze. A ~52-second arrival in four scenes. # # Key: Eb major (Bb, Eb, Ab in the signature). 4/4, ~110 BPM # (1 beat ≈ 0.545 s, 1 bar ≈ 2.18 s). # Form: 24 bars / ~52 s. Score lives at dingaba.np; the actual # event scheduling + mix lives in bin/render-dingaba.mjs. # # Voices: # glockenspiel — the doorbell itself; chiming lead # kalimba — offbeat sparkle (sunlight on the welcome mat) # bass — heartbeat pulse on 1 & 3 (low Eb / Bb) # rosewood — warm thirds underneath on phrase tails # # ── unspoken lyric, syllable-by-syllable ────────────────────────────── # # [chime] — the doorbell rings, bars 1–4 # bar 1: ding DONG ding (Bb5 ─ G5 ─ Eb5) # bar 2: (rest, listening) (silence + low pulse) # bar 3: ding DONG ding (Eb5 G5 ─ Bb5 reply) # bar 4: (rest, footsteps coming) (kalimba tip-tap) # # [hello] — climbing answer, bars 5–12 — "who-IS-it / hel-LO" # bar 5: hel LO hel-lo (G5 Bb5 ─ G5 Eb5) # bar 6: who IS it (F5 Ab5 ─ Bb5) # bar 7: hel LO hel-lo (G5 Bb5 ─ G5 Eb5) # bar 8: com-ing THROUGH (F5 G5 ─ Ab5) # bar 9: hel LO hel-LO (Bb5 C6 ─ Bb5 Ab5) # bar 10: it is ME (G5 Bb5 ─ Eb6) # bar 11: hel LO hel-LO (G5 Bb5 ─ G5 Eb5) # bar 12: at the DOOR (F5 G5 Bb5) # # [friend] — the warm welcome, bars 13–20 (rosewood thirds enter) # bar 13: it's YOUR friend (Eb5 G5 ─ Bb5) # bar 14: come ON in (Ab5 G5 ─ F5) # bar 15: it's YOUR friend (Eb5 G5 ─ Bb5) # bar 16: come IN (C6 ─ Bb5 held) # bar 17: i brought you (G5 Ab5 Bb5) # bar 18: TU lips (C6 ─ Bb5 ─ G5) # bar 19: yel-low ones (Bb5 G5 ─ Eb5) # bar 20: for your TA ble (F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5) # # [inside] — settling cadence I-IV-V-I, bars 21–24 # bar 21: come in (Eb) (Eb5 G5 Bb5 ─ Eb6) # bar 22: si-t down (Ab) (Ab5 C6 ─ Ab5) # bar 23: stay a while (Bb) (Bb5 D6 ─ Bb5 F5) # bar 24: home (Eb) (Eb5 G5 ─ Bb5 ─ Eb6) # # Below: section markers for the renderer (sections by name). # chime 4 [glockenspiel, bass] Bb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Eb5:_*2 Eb3:_*4 Eb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*2 Eb3:_*4 # hello 8 [glockenspiel, bass, kalimba] G5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Eb5:_*1 F5:_*1 Ab5:_*1 Bb5:_*2 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Eb5:_*1 F5:_*1 G5:_*1 Ab5:_*2 Bb5:_*1 C6:_*1 Bb5:_*1 Ab5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 Eb6:_*2 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Eb5:_*1 F5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*2 # friend 8 [glockenspiel, bass, kalimba, rosewood] Eb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*2 Ab5:_*1 G5:_*1 F5:_*2 Eb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*2 C6:_*2 Bb5:_*2 G5:_*1 Ab5:_*1 Bb5:_*2 C6:_*1 Bb5:_*1 G5:_*2 Bb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Eb5:_*2 F5:_*1 G5:_*1 Ab5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 # inside 4 [glockenspiel, bass, kalimba, rosewood] Eb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 Eb6:_*1 Ab5:_*1 C6:_*1 Ab5:_*2 Bb5:_*1 D6:_*1 Bb5:_*1 F5:_*1 Eb5:_*1 G5:_*1 Bb5:_*1 Eb6:_*1