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Thread #122706 Message #3091301
Posted By: Lighter
08-Feb-11 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: folksongs in the lydian and phrygian mode
Subject: RE: folksongs in the lydian and phrygian mode
To me it's interesting only because if collectors can have only come up with a vanishingly small number of tunes in Lydian or Phrygian or anything else, it means that, at least over the past 125 years or so, there has simply been no significant use of those modes in tradition. Why not?
There's probably no simple answer, and it may not matter, but it's an interesting question anyway because, presumably, there could be traditional cultures that groove on the Lydian like we do on the Ionian. (And if not, why not?)
I guess it's a musical psychology thing.