Re: musical systems (was fictional worlds)

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.