Re: Chords and Scales

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

In my theory courses, I always make a distincition between modes (which are far
more than scales) and modal scales, which are more typical of more recent 
musical
practices.  And, yes, the chords that support modal scales are very different.
Debussy often harmonizes melodies in modal scales with chords that don't 
entirely
belong to the mode.

Allen Davis wrote:

> Yes, but we all know that the notes are only part of what makes a mode a
> mode. And the chord progressions that support the notes are very different,
> aren't they?
>
> Allen
>
> At 05:33 PM 3/24/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >on 3/24/03 5:03 PM, Dick Hauser at richelizhauser (at) attbi(dot)com wrote:
> >
> > > Hope you'll indulge me in a reality check.  Today I was looking at a
> > > Blues "lead sheet".  One of the chord notations is D7(b9b13).  When I
> > > actually started thinking about how to use that chord, I realized
> > > that it marks out Ahava Raba on D.  Is that right?
> >
> >That chord does indeed contain all the notes of the freygish scale. Yet more
> >proof of the link between klezmer and blues!
> >
> >Seth
> >
> >--
> >Seth Austen
> >
> >http://www.sethausten.com
> >email: seth (at) sethausten(dot)com
> >
>

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Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
Head, Division Of Composition and Music Theory
University of Minnesota
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