Robert Bley-Vroman wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:09:00 -0400 Bruce Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Mode distribution: Highest 31 modes (of 179) of the 6601 tunes > >stressed coded in file Comcode.TXT on my website. > > <then follows a table> > > This table is wonderful! Thank you. I've been wanting something like this. > It give some sort of non-speculative basis to discussions of keys and modes. >.................... > > Robert Bley-Vroman >
Thanks, but don't get too carried away. Coding tunes the way I do it is brain wearying work, and one soon gets sort of saturated and starts making errors. I've found some already since I posted my table here. As a rough estimate my numbers of tunes for each mode are probably good to 2 or 3 percent. However, someone making a different sampling of tunes than the ones I coded might get very substantial differences from mine. I would guess, for some modes, well over 25%. This is just a first try, that I wanted to see as a crude approximation, and that's all it really is. 6601 tunes is hardly a drop in the bucket. I've got Irish covered pretty well to about 1865, and English broadside ballad tunes to 1700, but beyond that my coverage is practically infinitesmal. Scots I started on, but am still awaiting a reprint of Oswald's 'Caledonian Pocket Companion', of which I have only about 10% that I copied by hand. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my website <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
