While surfing the net for more information about modes I came across this site -
http://www.standingstones.com/modeharm.html which people might find interesting. I was particularly pleased to find this - >It was not until the early 20th century that researchers in traditional music >realized that traditional music used Renaissance modes. The pioneering >work of the likes of Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams was >greeted with statements along the lines of "How can you tell me that these >ignorant peasants are singing in the Mixolydian mode when some of our >finest music professors don't even know what it is?" The point being that the "ignorant peasants" were perfectly capable of singing their songs without knowing anything about modes. The modes were applied as decriptive classifications after the fact by middle class folklorists who were just the sort of classical musicians that some of the most dedicated supporters of modes on this list seem to despise. Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams don't seem to have convinced the English Folk Dance and Song Society who never seem to use modes in their published music. Bryan Creer To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
