[PD] pd-based procedural chord progression database..
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Thu Aug 17 05:19:54 CEST 2006
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> A bit of trivia that some of you might or might not know: Anceint Greek
> theorists called our Ionian mode "Lydian". Their diatonic scales counted
> *downward* by the same intervals ours uses upward; so our Phrygian was
> their root-mode, so to speak; they called it Dorian.
This is due to a transcription mistake which, like most mistakes, was
perpetrated during the Middle Ages.
(Most other mistakes were perpetrated during the Bush era)
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