63.95Apply it to “Happy Birthday”

Use the melody as the top voice.

For a Lydian version:

C bass.

Where melody permits, harmonize with:

C major

or:

D major upper structure.

A melody note A can become:

13 of C

and top of D major.

A melody note F♯—if deliberately altered in a transformation—can become ♯11.

Then return to ordinary C at the end.

The contrast will be enormous.