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Ricardo -> RE: Manolo Sanlucar Didatic Flamenco DVD Set (Aug. 13 2016 16:33:50)
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ORIGINAL: Paul Magnussen
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wouldn't that make his Mixolydian mode our Aeolian mode?
Apparently not. If you go to the Wikipedia page on Mode (music) and click on Español in the list of languages on the left, you’ll find the modes written out, with their Spanish names, a little less than halfway down the page. Note that the Mixolidio goes from B to B, i.e. our Locrian.
(Incidentally, several classical textbooks say that the Locrian is, in practice, unusable. I guess their authors haven’t listened to Joe Pass.)
Not unusuable but rather unstable, due to the Flat 5th scale degree. Even jazz guys often prefer the Aeolian b5 as a more colorful thing to use over the half diminished (minor7b5) chord than straight locrian. In non modal contexts, it's usage gets downplayed by other harmonic stuff going on. For example Impetu uses it a bit but it all sounds like A Phrygian flamenco stuff in the end. To be proper "modal" sounding music, you need to hear just the bass note or chord for a long enough time to establish a mood or vibe with it. While I can find you an example of all the natural modes used as a basis for a single "song", I can't think of one single Locrian example.
Back on topic I always found it interesting how Sanlucar uses both Mixolydian and Lydian modes a lot in his flamenco. For example the famous caballo negro is a Mixolydian Vamp first time used in the genre I believe. It has that cheesy American rock sound of course. Also he used Dorian a lot on the album with Carmen Linares. He also used the minor Phrygian sound and I think inspired V. Amigo to explore that as well. But again, put into context of other chords and things going on, modal flavors get washed out to sound as part of the whole tonal context.
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