Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

Using the following steps, determine the mode of “Old Joe Clark.”

1. Name the major key with two sharps.


2. Identify the interval of last note of song to the tonic note of the major scale.


3. Using this interval, determine the mode.


4. Draw the mode and indicate the half steps (HS).


5. “Hitragut,” Middle Eastern folk song

Using the following steps, identify the mode of “Hitragut.”

1. Name the major key with two flats.


2. Identify the interval of last note of song to the tonic note of the major scale.


3. Using this interval, determine the mode.


4. Draw the mode and indicate the half steps (HS).

Modesand BluesHarmony

Beginning in the 1950’s and 1960’s, jazz, rock and blues musicians began to use modal harmonies in their songs.
Listen to Miles Davis (including “So What” and the album “Kind of Blue”), The Rolling Stones (“I’m Crying”),
The Who, or Crosby, Stills and Nash for examples of modal influences in jazz, rock, or blues music.

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