Jim I was planning to append your note to the TSF newsletter but, unfortunately, the formatting is detroyed somewhere between your e-mail and mine. If you can...
This is partly, if not largely, to reinvent the wheel - a great deal of work was done by a conference on the matter some several years ago and DK Wilgus...
... How does he do it? I can't imagine where he finds the time and energy to compile the indexes to begin with, and now to add motifs . . . . But it's a great...
I know obscure European volumes are difficult to get hold of, but as has already been suggested, we are in danger of spending a lot of time and energy...
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Feb 10, 2005 11:49 pm
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Thanks to Georgina for giving the details which I, being away from home, could not supply. I think though there may be another paper, reissued by the John...
I am trying to describe the modes to the non-musical. I thought if I could find a commonly known melody in each of the modes it would be an aural description ...
... As I remember, John Kirkpatrick wrote "The Grave Digger's Song" specifically to exploit the phrygian mode. He couldn't find a commonly known melody and so...
"Marie's Wedding" is pentatonic (trip we gaily as we go Heel for heel and toe for toe, Arm in arm and row on row All for Marie's wedding" ... pentatonic = can...
... It's a long time since I mugged up on modes - I may well have muddled mi minors! J -- John Adams Programme Leader - BSc(Hons) Professional Broadcast...
... Malcolm's observation is correct - it is the Locrian (sp? never seen it written down!) mode. Chris Coe tells me that JK wrote it for fun after Bert Lloyd...
... According to John's liner notes, it is indeed in Locrian. Peace, Paul...
Paul Stamler
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Feb 21, 2005 4:48 pm
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... This is a fun one. Any ideas on phrygian, lydian & mixolydian? Or is there a web site I should look at instead of bothering you good people? I'm working...
... This is a fun one. Any ideas on phrygian, lydian & mixolydian? Or is there a web site I should look at instead of bothering you good people? John...
In the Introduction to "The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads" (Vol-1), Bronson provides a brief discussion of modes (pp. xxv-xxix). Additionally, he ...
... ... Thanks for the help and the sites. We twiddled at tune at the York Viking Festival (the group is Regia Anglorum we provide the entertainment) as one...
Replying to Jan-Ellen Harriman: Mixolydian should be easy. It is very common in British and even more so in American trad song. A collection that lists the...
I thought that modal classification was considered by many people as rather artificial- imposing a formal system of classification on folk melody the goes...
I once heard Peter Hall demonstrating the sounds of different modes by playing the tune of The Dowy Dens of Yarrow several times, each time in a different...
Dave Herron has asked me to post the following query on his behalf: "I'm trying to do an article on fox hunting and trad song and I'm sure I remember a song...
The song being thought of here, is in my mind as "The bitch fox" and was sung by Bert Lloyd though I don't know if he ever recorded it. It contains a complaint...
John - Swan Arcade recorded 'Bitch Fox' on their Fellside album, 'Diving for Pearls'. This is now available on Swan Arcade - Round Again FECD160. The song...
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... From: <jmoul81075@...> To: <Tradsong@yahoogroups.com> Sent: 22 February 2005 10:08 Subject: Re: [Tradsong] Help re hunting songs, please ... 'The Old...
