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Re: musical systems (was fictional worlds)

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Sunday, August 11, 2002, 1:22
Quoting bnathyuw:

> white note modes: > > c-c ionian > d-d dorian > e-e phrygian > f-f lydian > g-g mixolydian > a-a aeolian > (b-b lochrian)
I think modes were one of the particularly interesting things I learned about doing music lessons as a youngster. My teacher got me to compose a piece demonstrating the concept as a homework exercise, which I did, generating a fairly competant composition. At the time I wasn't taught much at the time about any historical origin of modes (I still don't know much), but was able to recognise the term later when I read it in a book or two. As for music in the Gzarondan world, I've not thought about it comprehensively except that _of course_ they'd play the sort of music that I like, but I have thought that (1) Gzaronda has dragons, in fact "Gzaronda" *is* "Land of the Gzarin (dragon)", and I think dragons make soft, panflute-like music as they fly by allowing the breeze to flow through openings beneath their wings, and that (2) the name of a traditional Gzarondan musical style would translate as "stones in river", where the stone is a metaphor for the structured foundation of the music while the river is a metaphor for ornamentation and improvisation. Adrian.