Modal music is a system wherein there is a base note or tonic that all other notes play against. Think of the tambura or drone in Indian music; the sitar plays ascending and descending notes against ...

Broadly speaking, the modes can be split into two main categories – major modes and minor modes - depending on whether they contain a major or minor 3rd, and each mode has a particular type of chord ...

BRATTLEBORO >> Music doesn't understand national borders. It can't be so easily constrained. Music grows, it travels, and it resonates. Traditions, sounds, styles all interconnect. The modal music ...

The Drexel University Experimental Music Ensemble focuses on music making through improvisational structures, sonic explorations, modal music, irregular time signatures, and aleatoric (chance) ...

Sarkis said he would like for people to appreciate that Arabic music is one of the most beautiful kinds of music to ever exist. “It’s for me, the most beautiful,” Sarkis said. “I might be biased, but ...