OK - I'm being thick. (Being drunk accounts for a little, but I didn't
understand it when i was sober either!
John quoted these examples and I either don't understand them
or I don't recognise them. Please help.
> K:^G Just a ^G as the key signature, no tonic given.
No problem
> K:_f_B_e Balkan and Middle-Eastern musicians will recognize this
So this has all Es Bs and Fs flatted. I've seen B flat, E flat and F SHARP
which is and altered Dorian (tonic is C) or Phrygian (tonic is D) scale
which is fairly common in the Balkan area (I'm sort of including Israel and
maybe Morocco in that - please don't shoot me).
> K:D_f_B_e D hejaz/freygish scale
Same applies only more so. Freygish is the Yiddish term and probably
derives from "Phrygian" (so it says in my book on klezmer). Shouldn't
the F be SHARP?? F flat is already weird, but calling it freygish is
weirder.
> K:C_f_B_e C misheberach scale.
NO, NO, NO!! The F has to be sharp? What are you writing it flat all
the time???!!
> K:Dmaj_e_B D^f^c_e_B -- what's this one called?
Dunno
> K:Amix=g paranoid A mixolydian, with explicit G natural.
This, I understand
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