[abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-24 Thread Bryancreer
Now that I've calmed down a bit I'll have another go. I think you are underestimating the cultural sophistication of English farmworkers by a VERY large margin. I'm not sure why saying that traditional singers could get all the information they needed from the music without having to read

Re: [abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-24 Thread John Chambers
| John Chambers wrote - | Nobody has suggested replacing K:tonic+mode with K:signature. | | Unfortunately Bruce Olson did say - | That's one more reason why I'd like | to see the key-mode in K: eliminated; we can cut out ambiguity in | notation and put in into interpretation where it

[abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-24 Thread Bryancreer
Phil Taylor wrote - I think you guys are actually arguing from the same side of the fence. Thanks Phil we needed that and thank you for a posting which I was largely able to agree with. After being reprimanded by a Scotsman for something I hadn't said about English farmworkers I did rather

Re: [abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-23 Thread Jack Campin
With gapped scales: Will a tune with a missing seventh be called ionian or mixolydian in the key+mode system? Why should it be called either since it's not a heptatonic scale? I suggested how we could deal with this years ago. There is no standard for putting this in key signatures, but

Re: [abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm (Out of Office)

2002-07-23 Thread Felicia Gonzalez
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[abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-23 Thread Bryancreer
Jack Campin wrote - I think you are underestimating the cultural sophistication of English farmworkers by a VERY large margin. Nearly all of them went to church, and for most of the areas Sharp, Lloyd and Vaughan Williams collected in, that church was the Church of England. With a tradition of

[abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-22 Thread Bryancreer
Robert Bley-Vroman wrote - Will major-scale tune with some flatted sevenths be transcribed with the flatted seventh as part of the key signature, or with the flatted sevenths indicated as accidentals within the body of the tune? Whichever you like as long as you specify all the notes

Re: [abcusers] Re: Key/Mode algorithm

2002-07-22 Thread Bruce Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Bley-Vroman wrote - Will major-scale tune with some flatted sevenths be transcribed with the flatted seventh as part of the key signature, or with the flatted sevenths indicated as accidentals within the body of the tune? Whichever you like as long as