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James Cooksey Culwick
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Yet, strange to say, all these versions of the air remain perfectly true to the contents of the ancient scale. That is, the primal scale being gapped — starting from C and omitting F and B — the second mode of the scale (in which this tune is written), having D for the final, will be found also wanting the notes F and B, so that we have now the scale of D, but without either the 3rd or the 6th degrees. Of course such omissions must, and do produce a very marked and characteristic effect.
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...aving explained the nature of the modes, we may hope that the system will be readily understood. The third mode of this period stands thus : — Fig. VI. -Modk III.
t s>- s^=^ ISZ =^-^ The next example I give is taken from Crotch's specimens. No. 47.
moderato.
Fig. VP. — The Battle of Argan Mor.
n~^^i^ W^^^^ ^ It is there described as very ancient, and most probably it is so ; but, as given in Crotch, its meaning and form are wholly disguised. Transposing it a 4th up, he forces it to conform to the harmonies of F major, though its final is E.


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