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Thread #139211   Message #3200251
Posted By: GUEST
02-Aug-11 - 01:14 PM
Thread Name: Musical Modes...Anyone Understand?
Subject: RE: Musical Modes...Anyone Understand?
Don't try to make it more complicated than it already is!

There's an opposite risk, which I think you're falling into.

Describing a piece as "modal" doesn't mean it's in an idiom from the Middle Ages, and it doesn't mean your arrangement of it has to be pseudo-mediaeval. That way lies Walkaboutsverse-think.