there's another kind. I call it the professorial modal.

Say I've found an unusual and creative piece of early music which uses a strange new set of notes. I exclaim, "Isn't this cool? So creative, not bound by the rules yet!"

There has to be someone in the room who's taken too many music courses. This person lowers the eyelids, looks down the nose, and says in a dismissive voice, "It's modal."

They're usually wrong, but they're good at breaking the mood.