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

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

(Michael Rubin)->"When using a mode of a major scale, the key is now the same name as the new root."

(Winslow Yerxa)->"but it is named for its tonal center, D,"

Is there any situation such that the  "tonal center" or "root" would be ambiguous?

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


On â6â/â10â/â2014 at 10:41 AM, "Michael Rubin" <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Neil,
>When you transpose the song to the key of D, it remains a minor 
>song.  The
>notes you are playing are all white notes and therefore are 
>members of the
>D Dorian scale, which is a mode of the C major scale.  
>Coincidentally,
>there are other D scales that use all of these notes, so this 
>melody is not
>necessarily dorian.  The D aeolian scale has all of these notes as 
>well as
>do others.  For the purpose of this discussion we'll call it 
>dorian.  But
>that does not make it in the key of C.  When using a mode of a 
>major scale,
>the key is now the same name as the new root.
>