I’ve mentioned to Ulrich privately that after September I might be able to program an online tool that would show the modes starting on any key for any tuning of instrument. That would be the easy way to accommodate what you want, Ernic.
So I’ll consider this for what I have in mind. -Arle > On 2014 Jul 28, at 12:07 , Ernic Kamerich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Ulrich, > > Nice work, thank you for that!. > > But why would one base all church modes in c only? For instance, if you have > the luxury of an extended range down to F and a bourdon in G, dorian mode can > be played easily based on G and, supposing that the tuning of the tangents is > adapted to a bourdon in G, this will work well in the many cases where the > melody does not go lower than F. Medieval hurdy gurdy players will have done > the like, because most hurdy gurdies were diatonical or almost diatonical > (C-D-E-F-G-A-Bes-B-C-..., where I suppose that a bourdon in D and possibly a > bourdon in G/A was available). > > Personally, I prefer not to play some of the proposed scales. For instance F > major if the tuning of the tangents is based on bourdons in C and G, because > the third F-A will be much too large, unless the fifth D-A is very small, in > which case a mouche / alto drone in D for playing in G is unacceptable. > However, when the tangents are adjusted to bourdons in C and G, the D major > can still be used by avoiding the low A and pressing sufficiently hard on > the high A-key. But again, I would not play in A major or minor with this > tuning because of the bad fifth A-E. But if one does not care about pureness > of the third, all these scales can be used. It is a matter of taste. > > Best regards > > Ernic > > > 2014-07-28 10:58 GMT+02:00 Ulrich Joosten <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > sorry, please dump version 2.8! > > The attached version version contains the correction of a major mistake > regarding the (mistakingly) reversed fingering numbers. > > > > Best regards, > Ulrich > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new > subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hurdygurdy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new > subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hurdygurdy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
