Arle All the standard European modes are modes are given on p. 82 of The Hurdy-gurdy Method. Michael
> On 28 Jul 2014, at 08:36, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's topic summary <> > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy/topics > <http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy/topics> > PP hurdy-gurdy scales <x-msg://41/#group_thread_0> [3 Updates] > <> PP hurdy-gurdy scales > <http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy/t/8ce13999b3888451> > Ulrich Joosten <[email protected]> Jul 27 06:50PM +0200 > > Dear all, > > finde enclosed a new version of the Power Point presentation Hurdy-gurdy > scales. > > I translated the notation to the English system (and hope I made no > mistakes). U fortunately the Libre Office program is totally crap - I was not > able to give names to the slides and I could not enter hyperlinks. I treid > several times and it drove me mad because after > saving and re-opening the file all hyperlinks were gone. If somebody is able > to help out - any hint is very welcome. > > Please, if somebody wants to proofread: this would be very good. > > Oh, yes, I deleted all the redundand information of the first version (that > means: not used notes were grayed in the first version, now I totally removed > them, so one can concentrate just on the relevant notes). > > Your thoughts are very welcome. > > And: I enclose a pdf verison. > > Have fun, > cheers, > > Ulrich Joosten <[email protected]> Jul 27 08:58PM +0200 > > Hello Tom, > > I know that the hyperlinks do not work in the English version. I copied the > German version (which was done in MS office) within Libre Office. Then I > reworked all the entries to translate them into English. When everything was > done I realised that Libre Officee does not store hyperlinks - I really tried > hard to do so. It was very frustrating: I re-entered all the links. Then I > saved the file. As I re-opened it all the links were gone. > > So - I decided to send it anyway. Even if you do not have the functionality > to navigate through the file - at lest you have the information. > > Once anybody can he give me a hint how to get the links working I will do so. > > Any help is welcome. > > Best, > Ulrich > > > Arle Lommel <[email protected]> Jul 27 09:56PM +0200 > > Hi Ulrich, > > I apologize for taking a few days to respond. We just moved (within Berlin) > and I’ve had a lot of work to do. > > This is a valuable resource, especially as many musicians have no formal > training in these aspects of music theory and I think it can really help > expand their horizons. There have been times I would have used something like > this when I’m trying to remember what a particular mode is. > > One of my first thoughts is that this would make an ideal online (HTML) > resource, since that solves the clickable problems. A lot of the complex > things I mention below could be easily addressed in a single web page using > JQuery + Javascript to allow tunings and modes to be changed while staying in > one page. While I couldn’t do it in the next month, I’d actually be > interested in programming an online single-page version of what you’ve done > that would calculate and show different modes for any tuning people choose. > We should talk in mid-September or so when some of my pressing projects will > be over. > > But for now, I’ve looked though the latest version and have a few minor > comments. > > To emphasize the connection between the parts, you might consider adding > “(Aeolian)” after “major” and “(Aeolian)” after “minor” in the slides that > you start with. > Slide 5: typo, says “C major” instead of “C minor” > Slide 14: typo, “Inonian” instead of “Ionian” > Slide 18: still in German > After 19: Would you add Locrian as well? It’s not commonly used, but for > completeness it would make sense to include it. Similarly, if you ever want > to get more ambitious, there are a lot of other modes that could be of > interest. The obvious ones to add would be the melodic minors (although the > fact that they are actually a pair of matched modes for ascending and > descending passages would complicate describing them). Going a bit further > afield, scales such as the Double harmonic scale > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_harmonic_scale > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_harmonic_scale>), which is one I use a > lot in my playing, might be interesting. > Slide 20: this one I find interesting because the numbering is the reverse of > piano practice. Given the centrality of piano fingering for many musicians, I > think it might make sense to reverse the numbers, i.e, 1 = index, 2 = middle, > 3 = ring. (And I’d note that this is French/older U.S. style for piano; for > full correspondence with current U.S. and German numbering, I think 1 would > equal the thumb. but I think this doesn’t make sense for your purposes). > More generally, the Weichselbaumer instrument you have has an unusual tuning. > If you move this to a web resource, you could have an option to show it with > the Weichselbaumer (open F), C/G (open G), and G/D (open D) tunings for the > various scales. Then people could adapt it to their instruments. Of course > this adds some complexity to what you are doing, but in the web interface I’m > thinking of it would be really simple… > > I’ll try to look at it a little more in coming days and get back to you with > anything else, but I hope the above helps. > > Best, > > Arle > > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. 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