17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
5:19 a.m.
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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