The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113509 Message #2413591
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
14-Aug-08 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: mode of flat 3 and#7
Subject: RE: mode of flat 3 and#7
No, no. The question is the post asks about a scale with these notes (and I quote)
d e fnat g a b c# d.
What we have here is a 'scale' where the only black note is a C#.
That doesn't fit any popular pattern that I've ever learned, Captain. By 'popular pattern' I mean a major scale, minor scale or mode, such as one learns from a teacher or finds in a book about music history.
However, I play a lot of early music, and over the years I have come across a few tunes which do this. (Can't think of which ones right now.)
Were they written because some early musician had an independent streak and wanted it that way? Or was somebody's instrument in bad shape and could play a C# but not a C? We'll never know. Nonetheless, it's great fun to come across unusual music like this and realize you are sharing its uniqueness with someone who lived 400 years ago.