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- From: dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (David West)
- Subject: Re: Locrian mode? (was: Re: Modes)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.184440.8584@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway (Ann Arbor).
- References: <1992Dec18.061722.7118@das.harvard.edu> <BzGnuD.5xM@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <packer-211292113359@excalibur.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:44:40 GMT
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- In article <packer-211292113359@excalibur.swarthmore.edu> packer@forum.swarthmore.edu (Asa Packer) writes:
- >Does anyone know of any tunes that use the Locrian mode?
- >(Locrian is B C D E F G A B or C Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C)
- >Anytime I've seen this mode mentioned in books the author always said
- >something
- >like "this mode has never been much more than a theoretical possibility".
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- John Kirkpatrick's song "Dust To Dust", on his album "Jump at the Sun",
- Trailer LER 2033 (1972).
-
- The song is about death, and the melody is unusual (this is almost guaranteed
- by the use of the Locrian mode) and, IMHO, beautiful in a spare and angular way,
- and well-matched to his unsentimental treatment of the subject-matter.
-
- -David West dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
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