Dean, don't you think the tonal center is important though? After all, the C Ionian does have a completely different feeling than the A aolian , B locrian, F lydian, etc, when you center the pieces around those tonics.
Dean, don't you think the tonal center is important though? After all, the C Ionian does have a completely different feeling than the A aolian , B locrian, F lydian, etc, when you center the pieces around those tonics.
Absolutely. That's why good composers/musicians use them all to match the emotions they're trying to get out of the listeners. I just find it bizarre that because they were named after a geographic area that one might mistakenly think that they only played those modes there. This city is happy, that one is sad. Ted has written about how numerous cultures all had their shamanic leaders, the leader of the band, playing diffferent songs for funerals, weddings, festivals. Interestingly I just stumbled across a mention of Lydia rereading Sophocles' "Antigone" which made me sit up a bit straighter. I can't even remember those damn names despite umpteen attempts, I now just go I II III etc. I play through all of them in every key on guitar and piano 6 days a week, wouldn't have it any other way.
Dean, don't you think the tonal center is important though? After all, the C Ionian does have a completely different feeling than the A aolian , B locrian, F lydian, etc, when you center the pieces around those tonics.
Absolutely. That's why good composers/musicians use them all to match the emotions they're trying to get out of the listeners. I just find it bizarre that because they were named after a geographic area that one might mistakenly think that they only played those modes there. This city is happy, that one is sad. Ted has written about how numerous cultures all had their shamanic leaders, the leader of the band, playing diffferent songs for funerals, weddings, festivals. Interestingly I just stumbled across a mention of Lydia rereading Sophocles' "Antigone" which made me sit up a bit straighter. I can't even remember those damn names despite umpteen attempts, I now just go I II III etc. I play through all of them in every key on guitar and piano 6 days a week, wouldn't have it any other way.