Bernard Hill writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Robinson | >See http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/00000c54.html | | (And why sharpen the fs in stave 5?)
I looked at this, and decided that I don't know the tune. Staff 5, which is in D major, sounds just find. If I play it in D dorian, it also sounds fine. Switching between D hijaz and either D major or D dorian are certainly conventional changes in that part of the world. So what key should it be? Also, A hijaz normally wouldn't have ^f. This doesn't matter in the first section, since there are no f's at all. I wonder about the later sections, though. The first f that appears could be ^f, because of the way the tune works. I'd expect the rest to be =f, though. If they are ^f, I'd expect a different name for the scale. Not that people are always very accurate about such things. Having ^f in an A hijaz scale is really no odder than having an occasional ^g in an A mixolydian scale. It just seems unusual for the ^f to be in the key signature. Or maybe the people who made the recording, who were Turkish gypsies, use the term in an unusual way. Turks usually use "hijaz" pretty much the same way that Arabs do, but there's the common gypsy style of playing fast and loose with all scales, and bending them around at will. "Music should follow our wishes, not the other way around." Not to mention "Who cares what you call it?" So they could well have used the term because the scale starts A _B ^c d e, and the 6th and 7th are variable. Sorta like classical minor. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
