Modal is to post-Modal as Cheese is to Chalk!

M Ted
"To get the idea of what really modal music would be, think of the pipes, or the Appalachian dulcimer, or the Turkish Saz or any instruments that use a continuous drone -- The idea is that the fundamental tonality doesn't shift -- which is to say, the melodic line always plays against or leads to the same note -- no chord changes, no key changes, and no harmonies (other than the drone notes"

And the Hurdy Gurdy - tuned with 'Just Temperament'!!

Couldn't put it better myself! And the effect is even more accentuated because it was ALWAYS in 'Just' Temperament, not 'Even'!!! So the intervals (and the resulting harmonies, and the harmonic beats!) between all the notes is very different from that possible with Even Temperament!

I sincerely doubt if it can be Technically Correct (other than for Pretentious Wankers!!!) to call _any_ Music 'Modal' at all, if it is played in a 'Post-Modal' Style, with Even Tempered Instruments???


"they tried to stretch [the existing philosophies, i.e.] modal theories to accommodate"

Humanity is unable to do much else...