第三十六期： What is a Mode?

概要
这一期伯恩斯坦介绍了音乐中 mode 的概念。这期的缘起是他的女儿问他一首披头士的歌的和弦，他跟她说这首歌是中古调式的然后她女儿很感兴趣～虽然这个词看起来很高级，但伯恩斯坦用两句话就解释完了😂: Modes are simple scales. A scale is simply a way of dividing up the distance between any note and the same note repeated an octave higher. 接下来的时间就是介绍了各种 modes，也就是各种 -ian们 🤣 而且用了很多例子展示他们的运用，干货满满～

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The word Dorian obviously comes from the Greek, and in fact, as well as the other modes we're about to discover, does come originally from the music of ancient Greece. We don't know too much about that old Greek music: What we do know is that the Greek modes eventually made their way to Rome and were taken up by the Roman Catholic church during the Middle Ages in a somewhat different form. But the church kept the old Greek names for the modes: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian, and Ionian.

From about the time of Bach until the beginning of our own century—roughly two hundred years—our Western music has been based almost exclusively on only two modes—the major and the minor.

And in the music of our own century, when composers have gotten tired of being stuck with major and minor all the time, there has been a big revival of those old pre-Bach modes. That's why Debussy used them so much, and other modern composers like Hindemith and Stravinsky, and almost all the young song writers of today's exciting pop music scene.

曲目
1. Debussy - Festivals (Fetes)
2. Along comes Mary
3. Sibelius - Symphony No.6
4. Secret Agent Man
5. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
6. Brahms - Symphony No.4
7. Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije
8. Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, Third Movement “Heiliger Dankesang”
9. Sibelius - Symphony No.4
10. Chopin - Mazurka No.15 in C (Op.24, No.2)
11. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov “Polonaise”
12. Tommy James & the Shondells - Hanky Panky
13. Kinks - You Really Got Me
14. Beatles - Norwegian Wood
15. Debussy - The Sunken Cathedral
16. Bernstein - Fancy Free
17. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

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