On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
So when you say a mixolydian feel in lydian, are you saying put a flat 7 in the melody?
IMHO, a lydian is a backwards mixolydian in the sense that they're both on either side of the ionian mode, if you map the ecclesiastic modes on the circle of fifths: F:lydian, C:ionian, G:mixolydian... if you remove VII from ionian, it may as well be mixolydian, and likewise, if you remove IV from lydian, it may as well be ionian. Any pair of adjacent modes on the circle of fifths are only different by one degree, and which degree it is also follows the circle of fifths: IV and VII are a fifth apart.
If you leave a degree out in a lydian, you can make it sound like it's a ionian, and then the real ionian next to it would immediately sound like it's mixolydian, right?
Else, I have no clue how lydian and mixolydian are related.
I don't understand music.
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