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Subject: Re: [Shapenote] "What Child is This?" on PBS
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:38:04 -0600 (CST)
From: nicholas <narusso@...>









I didn't see the show, but I've definitely heard it both ways.
My organ/piano-playing aunt-in-law says some arrangements shift
to the sharp note part way through, and some don't.

I like the flat-sixth that the Aeolian scale introduces :)

Here's an interesting thread about it:


http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.music.bluenote/2005-12/msg00181.\
html

Paul.Streeter said:

> One of the Christmas specials (my aging brain promptly forgot which) included
> this carol and it sounded odd to me because the second note of "this" was
> sharp to what I expected; then I realized it was Dorian mode. I checked
> Wikipedia and found that "Greensleeves is in Dorian mode
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_mode>, though modern musicians sometimes
> play it in the natural minor scale
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_minor_scale> instead."
>
> Did anyone else notice it?
>
> PGS