Dear Jim,Walter said[nine times out of ten,I can get an old fashioned ten key accordion German tuned. You can nearly tell what is an old song].
so if Walter was only referring to his own repertoire and how he defined it was old ,and not as a litmus code for others to define what was old, whats its relevance. The point is its a flawed way of defining whats old.
because, modern writers can write tunes in the dorian mode[they are modern songs, perhaps written in a traditional style, but they are not old or traditional[ and I love her[[ BEATLES]]]
NORWEGIAN WOOD which appears to have one part in the mixolydian mode and one part in the dorian, it might sound traditional but it is written by Lennon and MCartney. royalties are due to the owners it is modern not traditional.DickMiles