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Brian Peters	folk process: tune evolution? (169* d)	RE: folk process: tune evolution?	26 Nov 17
"Sharp and others of his era found modal tunes so aesthetically pleasing that they must have arrived at that state as the result of improvement through evolution." At the same time, Sharp believed that modal scales were an ancient form that folksong had somehow preserved, so there's another contradiction there.

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