I have to agree with Henrik. My experience is that many musicians (including some quite good ones who really ought to know better) do one of two things. They either say an Edor tune is in D (which is silly as it spends it's time flirting briefly with D and then homing back to E just as a piece in D will flirt with the notes in G and A7 chords and then home back to D), or else they say it's in E minor which is perhaps closer to the truth, but a piece in Em will typically find its way home via the note ^D and the chord B7, wheras a dorian tune will use D and arrive home with the "non-classical" chord pattern D Em.
Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Norbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... This is a confusion of key and mode. If, as in the original example, we have K:D %Edorian we don't have the right key! The right key is *not* D, it is "two sharps" or "f# c#" to be more precise. D means that the final (or tonal centre or whatever you want to call it) of the tune is the note D and the mode is ionian or major (which is the most common mode in western European music and therefore the default mode). They actually teach you wrong at school... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
