source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 07:45:04 -0800 Subject: melodic modes in 19 & 17 From: COUL@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Brian writes: > Jeff Stayton's guitar accompaniment used an entirely different mode: > (Descending) > LsmssmsL where L = 3 scale-steps in 19 > s = 1 scale-step in 19 > m = 2 scale-steps in 19 > I.e., > 4 20=1 19 17 16 15 13 12 9 > (scale degrees played: numbered > from 1 to 19, with 20 = 1) > Stayton varied his mode by substituting 2 single scale-steps for a > 2-degree "m" step: thus he might play > LsssssmsL instead of LsmssmsL, for example. Something is wrong with this passage, the steps do not add up to 19, but 14. This must be a typo: > 1 6 4 1 5 (ascending: intervals in > number of 19-tone scale-steps) ^ 17 Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 18:58 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA15621; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:57:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:57:52 -0800 Message-Id: <9602020951.aa08673@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu