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Thread #71286   Message #1218881
Posted By: Pied Piper
03-Jul-04 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: Modal Music - How to tell?
Subject: RE: Modal Music - How to tell?
All music that uses the notes diatonic (means made up of 2 sizes of tones; semi and whole tone) scale (or part of it in 5 note pentatonic scale) is model.
So Major is a name of a Mode, the Mode that starts on the First note of the Diatonic scale and uses that note as its tonal centre (usually though not always the note the tune returns to at the end of a full phrase)
The modes with their fancy Greek names just start on different notes of the scale.
Modes
PP