Re: [a natural scale?]

Carl Lumma <clumma@nni.com> wrote:
> From: Carl Lumma <clumma@nni.com><br><br>About a year ago, while writing
some piano exercises, I noticed myself<br>consistently singing the "re" in
"do-re-me" flatter in minor than in major<br>keys.

To be precise, the major mode trichord is "do-re-mi" and the minor trichord is
"la-ti-do" (or do-re-me in chromatic parlance).

Fred

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>About a year ago, while writing some piano exercises, I noticed
>myself consistently singing the "re" in "do-re-me" flatter in
>minor than in major keys.
>
>To be precise, the major mode trichord is "do-re-mi" and the
>minor trichord is "la-ti-do" (or do-re-me in chromatic parlance).

I never learned the syllable thing. In Barbershop, we sing scale degree
numbers. In college theory, well, I never paid attention to that part, as
our teacher allowed scale degree numbers for the sight-singing exam (you
don't want to know what I did for the conducting motions!). So maybe you
can help clear this up for me --- does "la-ti-do" specify the aeolian mode
(as opposed to, say, dorian)? I just wanted to indicate the first three
degrees of a generic minor scale. What do you mean by "chromatic
parlance"? And -- not quite related -- is it correct to call all syllable
systems solfeg, or...?

-C.