A very proper Frere Jacques

Mahler, in his first symphony, put Frere Jacques into a minor key and turned it into a funeral dirge. Here I go one better by putting it into the eight proper scales prop7a to prop7h. I spare people the necessity of listening to all seven modes in each scale. I can't hear a ii chord in Frere Jacques, which isn't ideal, but what the hell. I think it serves to give some idea what these scales are all about, and at least it isn't Pachelbel again. So here it is, in order from prop7a to prop7h:

http://tinyurl.com/287y2kh

definitely different - though I don't think I understand the point you are
making.

Can you explain a bit?

Chris

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM, genewardsmith <genewardsmith@...
> wrote:

>
>
> Mahler, in his first symphony, put Frere Jacques into a minor key and
> turned it into a funeral dirge. Here I go one better by putting it into the
> eight proper scales prop7a to prop7h. I spare people the necessity of
> listening to all seven modes in each scale. I can't hear a ii chord in Frere
> Jacques, which isn't ideal, but what the hell. I think it serves to give
> some idea what these scales are all about, and at least it isn't Pachelbel
> again. So here it is, in order from prop7a to prop7h:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/287y2kh
>
>
>

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> definitely different - though I don't think I understand the point you are
> making.
>
> Can you explain a bit?

The point was that there are triads on all seven roots for these scales, just like the diatonic scale, and they are all proper, just like the diatonic scale, so I thought taking something in the diatonic scale and using it in these other scales would make for a good demonstration. Frere Jacques is not an ideal choice, but it's short and familiar.