Modes: A new approach to remembering them.
What is a Mode? Parts 1-4
Aired date: Nov 23, 1966
Plot: Bernstein discusses scales, intervals, and tones, and analyzes several pieces, including Debussy's Fêtes, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and music from the Kinks and the Beatles, to illustrate different modes. An excerpt from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free is also performed.
Aired date: Nov 23, 1966
Plot: Bernstein discusses scales, intervals, and tones, and analyzes several pieces, including Debussy's Fêtes, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and music from the Kinks and the Beatles, to illustrate different modes. An excerpt from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free is also performed.
As explained by Bernstein above, if you start a major scale (from the latin scala 'to climb'), from the 1st. note, i.e. the one that the scale is called, you are in the Ionian mode. So what is the name of the modal scale when one begins playing it from the 2nd. to 7th. notes up to their octave? And what is their relationship to their native Ionian parent key?
What I have discovered is a mnuenonic for this relationship between modes. As I have not seen this anywhere else, I am pleased to contribute something new to music theory, but if I am wrong about this, please let me know!:
Below is the very well known circle of fifths device used for remembering, among other things, the key signatures of the Major (and minor) keys. For a refresher I provide the following linked youtube clip:
What I have discovered is a mnuenonic for this relationship between modes. As I have not seen this anywhere else, I am pleased to contribute something new to music theory, but if I am wrong about this, please let me know!:
Below is the very well known circle of fifths device used for remembering, among other things, the key signatures of the Major (and minor) keys. For a refresher I provide the following linked youtube clip:
Once I can get a scan of my drawn figures, I will be completing this page.!!!!!!
8/1/15 Still trying to get this posted!
8/1/15 Still trying to get this posted!