[Harp-L] Re: When Johnny Comes Marching Home

["Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is correct; I caught that (minor issue) while thinking last night about transpositions (and adjusted the attached quoted message).

Next step: Why not then Chromatically Transpose from C-minor upward by 2 semi-tones? Would that be the C-Major Dorian Mode?

C-Minor (Chromatically Transposed):

C  G  C  C  C  D  Eb[D#]  D  Eb[D#], C Bb[A#] Bb[A#], G Bb[A#] Bb[A#].

C-Major (Dorian Mode?):

D   A   D   D   D   E   F  E   F,    D  C  C,   A  C  C.

How would that change the "character" of the tune? Same pattern of intervals should have exactly the same character.

/Neil (" http://thebuskingproject.com/busker/2025/ ")

On â6â/â9â/â2014 at 6:33 PM, "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>The example that you label as C major is actually C minor.That's 
>why it's so tough on a C major diatonic harmonica - Eb, Ab, and Bb 
>are all notes that belong to the C minor scale, not the C major 
>scale, and hence are not built into a C major diatonic harmonica.
>
>Winslow
>
>________________________________
>
>From: Harmonicology [Neil Ashby] <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
>Cc: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 1:40 PM
>Subject: Re: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
>
>Why don't I just figure these things out first because I had not 
>previously been transposing between G-minor and the C-Major scales; 
>I had probably played "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" from some 
>old tabs instead of the real sheet-music and the tabs were not 
>correctly transposed (which seems to be quite common).
>
>According to the actual sheet-music:
>
>[Corrected Version]
>
>In G-Minor:
>
>g d g g g a Bb a Bb, g f f, d f f.
>
>In C-Minor (Chromatically Transposed):
>
>CÂ GÂ CÂ CÂ CÂ DÂ Eb[D#]Â DÂ Eb[D#], C Bb[A#] Bb[A#], G Bb[A#] 
>Bb[A#].
>
>Yup, as Winslow has indicated, that is a rough transposition to C-
>minor.
>
>/Neil (" http://thebuskingproject.com/busker/2025/ ")