I do like modal music. As a banjo player I like music classified as Americana which is a blend of origins (Afro Caribbean and European), like America. The blues pentatonic is formed by dropping the semitones from Phrygian so it kinda sorta survives. Dorian is a more popular minor scale than Aeolian and Mixolydian is popular in music I li…
I do like modal music. As a banjo player I like music classified as Americana which is a blend of origins (Afro Caribbean and European), like America. The blues pentatonic is formed by dropping the semitones from Phrygian so it kinda sorta survives. Dorian is a more popular minor scale than Aeolian and Mixolydian is popular in music I like. I do have an attachment to a tonic home base and never got into atonal music though I'm fine with key changes to the dominant fifth. Music is the most wonderful thing in the world and it is sad what is happening to it.
Years ago, I worked with a guy who composed electronic atonal music. I had no way to judge if it was good or bad. He was a percussionist away from electronic music.
When I mentioned Phrygian it was with reference to its basis for pentatonic mode 1. I really only hear it from Middle Eastern sounding music as a complete modal scale.
My proudest: The Forces, Dawn of Comprehension. Forces starting at 2:44 I am very proud of. Strands has some of that hybrid modal stuff.
My goal: Brooding. Very well-liked.
Greatness of Rome is about the Trionfi, the returning triumphal armies.
Gone came out of a dream.
Some silly techno just for practice (Pinhasoid came out quite good), some covers (George Harrison, Bartók, Eno); the Bartók is quintal chords, I saw it live in 1973 and it changed my life. Second Piano Concerto, Adagio,
I am redoing Forces with some development. As you can hear, I need work on production and mastering.
Stuff to do today and haven't listened to all of it but I like what you've done on what I've listened to. I need to listen again and in what did he do here mode rather than just enjoy the music mode.
I'll politely disagree. Other than a black key scale having no semitones (critical to the concept of anhemitonic (nonhemitonic, no half steps) pentatonics it's way of looking at its usefulness ends there. The five pentatonic modes are positively modal.
The second semitone following a note (7th) in Lydian and Ionian is the tonic so there is no associated pentatonic mode.
Pentatonic Mode 1 is formed by dropping the semitones from Phrygian. Often thought of as blues minor.
Pentatonic Mode 2 is formed by dropping the semitones from Mixolydian. A major sounding scale. Popular in country and pop.
Pentatonic Mode 3 is formed by dropping the semitones from Aeolian.
Pentatonic Mode 4 is formed by dropping the semitones from Locrian. Not a popular pentatonic mode because of its tri-tone sans dominant 5th.
Pentatonic Mode 5 is formed by dropping the semitones from Dorian. It yields a scale that is neither Major or minor and is often used in music thought of as modal in old-time music.
Modes 1, 2 & 5 are the most popular of the pentatonic modes, at least in the US.
And yeah, the Locrian tri-tone (the devil's interval) was a no-no back then.
I just noodled around with that Super Locrian. Adding the Major 3rd makes the absence of the dominant 5th less jarring and a somewhat exotic sounding scale. Kind of cool. Thanks for mentioning it.
I do like modal music. As a banjo player I like music classified as Americana which is a blend of origins (Afro Caribbean and European), like America. The blues pentatonic is formed by dropping the semitones from Phrygian so it kinda sorta survives. Dorian is a more popular minor scale than Aeolian and Mixolydian is popular in music I like. I do have an attachment to a tonic home base and never got into atonal music though I'm fine with key changes to the dominant fifth. Music is the most wonderful thing in the world and it is sad what is happening to it.
Kids growing up now have no incentive to want to take part in music though electronic composition is really hot.
It makes me wonder, daily, who is going to play the contrabassoon in the orchestra in 25 years?
I compose a lot in a hybrid Lydian/Mixolydian:
C D E F♯ G A B♭ C
Dorian is really popular in blues but I'm not sure I've ever heard much Phrygian, except from the blimp in Bladerunner.
Years ago, I worked with a guy who composed electronic atonal music. I had no way to judge if it was good or bad. He was a percussionist away from electronic music.
When I mentioned Phrygian it was with reference to its basis for pentatonic mode 1. I really only hear it from Middle Eastern sounding music as a complete modal scale.
Is any of your music in the internet?
Sorry Steve, music detour.
"Sorry Steve, music detour."
😁 Detour away, I'm a musician myself.
Yeah. https://soundcloud.com/cheopys
My proudest: The Forces, Dawn of Comprehension. Forces starting at 2:44 I am very proud of. Strands has some of that hybrid modal stuff.
My goal: Brooding. Very well-liked.
Greatness of Rome is about the Trionfi, the returning triumphal armies.
Gone came out of a dream.
Some silly techno just for practice (Pinhasoid came out quite good), some covers (George Harrison, Bartók, Eno); the Bartók is quintal chords, I saw it live in 1973 and it changed my life. Second Piano Concerto, Adagio,
I am redoing Forces with some development. As you can hear, I need work on production and mastering.
Stuff to do today and haven't listened to all of it but I like what you've done on what I've listened to. I need to listen again and in what did he do here mode rather than just enjoy the music mode.
I start with a single simple idea and permute it. For The Forces it’s two notes, E and F
Actually pentatonic is completely distinct from modes. The black keys are a pentatonic scale and orthogonal to the modes.
In the Middle Ages you could be executed for playing in Locrian, B to b on the white keys.
Robert Fripp showed me Super Locrian, B C D E♭ F G A B
I'll politely disagree. Other than a black key scale having no semitones (critical to the concept of anhemitonic (nonhemitonic, no half steps) pentatonics it's way of looking at its usefulness ends there. The five pentatonic modes are positively modal.
The second semitone following a note (7th) in Lydian and Ionian is the tonic so there is no associated pentatonic mode.
Pentatonic Mode 1 is formed by dropping the semitones from Phrygian. Often thought of as blues minor.
Pentatonic Mode 2 is formed by dropping the semitones from Mixolydian. A major sounding scale. Popular in country and pop.
Pentatonic Mode 3 is formed by dropping the semitones from Aeolian.
Pentatonic Mode 4 is formed by dropping the semitones from Locrian. Not a popular pentatonic mode because of its tri-tone sans dominant 5th.
Pentatonic Mode 5 is formed by dropping the semitones from Dorian. It yields a scale that is neither Major or minor and is often used in music thought of as modal in old-time music.
Modes 1, 2 & 5 are the most popular of the pentatonic modes, at least in the US.
And yeah, the Locrian tri-tone (the devil's interval) was a no-no back then.
I just noodled around with that Super Locrian. Adding the Major 3rd makes the absence of the dominant 5th less jarring and a somewhat exotic sounding scale. Kind of cool. Thanks for mentioning it.