Jim Dawson wrote: > In fact I do not see any real information regarding modes coming > out in this discussion, plenty of show boating about how much > music history they know and nothing about how to use modes in > real life music.
I presume you mean me. I'd already put a fair bit of such information in the modes tutorial on my website; I wasn't about to repeat it. I assumed that everybody on this list had already read that. One point I make there, about an honest-to-god technical feature of the sort you seem to be asking about, is the one about gap-filling as a structural principle in large pieces, like multi-part pipe marches. I can't believe I'm the first to notice that, but I've never seen anybody else mention it in print. It's so pervasive I'd expect it to be on the RSAMD traditional music syllabus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
