Re: [lojban] music terms

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 04 April 2011 10:28:49 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> My music theory is virtually non-existent, so please bear with me.
> Shouldn't "cistrxeioli" be "aeolian" i.e. "natural minor" (but not harmonic
> minor
>
> or melodic minor)?.  If, as you suggest, it should mean any of the three
> minors,
>
> then the only way to specify which of the three minors it is, would be to
> spell out all
>
>  the notes in x3 - ponderous to say the least.  If there were a distinct
> fui'vla for each
>
> of the three minors, then x3 would be unnecessary. But then which minor is
> the minor in "Beethoven's String Quartet in C# minor Op 131 "?
>
> If, regardless of my suggestion, we were to have one fu'ivla for "minor",
> then wouldn't it be better to have x3 be the type (i.e. natural, harmonic
> or melodic)
>
> rather than the complete list of notes?

cistrxaioli is natural minor. The other two are frequently mixed. I don't know 
Beethoven's String Quartet. Greensleeves is in E minor, mixing the natural 
and melodic modes.

A scale can be called major or minor if it contains the major or minor chord 
of the tonic. In this sense, three of the seven modes are major, three are 
minor, and the seventh, Locrian, is neither. There are other major scales and 
other minor scales. So I think we should have a word for major scale and a 
word for minor scale, as well as words for particular scales.

Pierre
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