Bruce Olson wrote: >> >> Phil Taylor wrote: >> >................ >> >> > >> > The other scale that I can't find any examples for is the pentatonic >> > Pi-5. I suspect that there aren't any, as that scale involves dropping >> > the fifth, and it's hard to imagine a tune without a fifth in it. >> > >> > Phil Taylor >> > >> >> Pi-5 is pretty rare. I haven't found many. Here's a very >> little info. >> >> Sources of Irish Traditional Music, #454,"Love is the cause of my >> mourning" from Stuarts' Music for TTM (Scots). F, 2 sharps >> (Phrygian) missing C and G. >> > >Sorry, that should have been F# for the keynote (obviously, from that 2 >sharps). > >X:1 >T:Love is the cause of my mourning >S:from Stuart's 'Musick for Allan Ramsay's ..Scots Songs (TTM), c 1725-6 >S:via 'Sources of Irish Traditional Music', #454, 1998 >Q:1/8=120 >L:1/8 >M:3/4 >K:F#Phrygian >D3 EFA|F3EF/E/D|d3e d/e/f|F4FA|B2 dBAF|ABAFED|fedBAF|\ >EFEDB,|D3EFA|F3ED2|d3e d/e/f|F4BA|F2AFED|E3DEF|A2F2FA|F4|]
That's a fine illustration of why you can't rely on the final note of the tune to determine the tonic. The algorithm gives D major as the key for that, with D Lydian as second-best. If you play it against chords you will find that it can be accompanied by a D major chord, with brief excursions into G and A7. There's no way to accompany it in F#, so it's a Pi-1 tune (Lyd/Ion/Mix). Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
