GRGR920) note, part 1 or 2 Michael Perez

[Richard Romeo]

there was a character in the Superman comics of the 50s called Mr. M... or 
some such who had a way of adding a bit of farce to staid old CK in 
disguise--if memory serves, he came from a  strange world filled with folks 
w/ names w/ a lot of consonants. I'll see what I can dig up

rich


>From: "HenryM" <scuffling at hotmail.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: GRGR920) note, part 1 or 2 Michael Perez
>Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 06:08:52 -0600
>
>'Scuse me. Isn't the name Mixolydian used in large part because it's just 
>so
>much fun to say?
>
>Keep cool, but care.
>
>AsB4,
>
>Mu Me
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Mackin" <pmackin at clark.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:08 AM
>Subject: GRGR920) note, part 1 or 2 Michael Perez
>
>
> > Michael Perez wrote:
> > >
> > > Paul wrote:
> > > "Don't know the answer to this. The modern mixolydian scale would have
> > > to start on G rather B (Greek) if the black notes were missing as in
> > > the GR situation--in order that is to depart from C major only with
> > > respect to the flatted seventh. What this might have to do with
> > > anything I don't know. Maybe it could be considered a start on the 
>road
> > > to the Blues. Just need to additionally flat the third and fifth."
> > >
> > > I don't know what you mean by "modern mixolydian scale" here or why it
> > > would "have to start on G."  The modes started on different tones so
> > > that there would be different intervals between notes.  As far as the
> > > road to the blues, Miles used modes for music written in the early 
>60s.
> > >  _Kind of Blue_ was the a entire album of modal jazz - still sounds
> > > great after all these years, too.  He used the church type Dorian mode
> > > (all white keys beginning on D) mostly, if I recall correctly.
> >
> > Michael--
> > By "modern mixolydian" I merely meant not of the Ancient World. Modern
> > in the modal context could be said to have started with Medieval music.
> > Don't know if this modern meaning applies to V. Just thought I'd throw
> > it in. I don't know the approved way to describe what mixolydian means
> > today. The way I think of it is simply as changing the position of the
> > second half tone to between the sixth and seventh from between the
> > seventh and eighth as in the major scale. Thus to get the mixolydian
> > pattern of whole and half tones on a keyboard without using black keys
> > you have to start on G. This is merely taking advantage of the fact that
> > the intervals between B and C and  between E and F are naturally only a
> > half tone--no room for a black key in other words.  As I say I was just
> > playing with ideas. Don't imagine they add up to much of anything. The
> > idea of the mixolydian mode being a Blues scale without the black keys
> > required for the additional downward half tone shifting was possibly a
> > feeble reference to Speer who was the only Black character and therefore
> > the only one with full access to the Blues. It was a reach.
> >
> >
> >                         P.
> >

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