The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16987   Message #164069
Posted By: Okeimockbird
16-Jan-00 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: What does 'modal' really mean?
Subject: RE: What does 'modal' really mean?
Mary in Kentucky, the SH version of Wondrous Love is here, but I was wrong about its mode. It is written in G-minor, with e-flat, rather than in G-dorian, with e-natural. Modern arrangers have modified it to dorian (or dorian-influenced hexatonic, if you prefer), however, e.g. Hymns III, Church Hymnal Corporation, New York, 1979, Hymn 245b, and this is how I am accustomed to singing it.

T.