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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (60303)11/15/2011 7:46:10 PM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
The melody notes consist of a very simple use of the diatonic major scale.

Limited to the simplest chords in the key it is in.

That doesn't make it 'black.'

Folk tunes centuries older than Amazing Grace from Europe used the same procedure.

The melody concentrates on the notes making up the tonic chord It goes 5-1-3-1-3 2(passing note) 1-6-5; 5-1-3-1-3-2-5 etc.

So what.

That is a formula that LOTS of other very simple songs are built on.

Since it consists almost completely of the tonic chord notes, in a course to develop a student's perception of the scale as related to the chords within a major key, this general type would be the first group of melodies to be given as exercises.

Such an instruction book would give MANY examples of this type of melody limited mainly to notes of the I chord. The next chapter would add the next gradient--melodies built on the I and V chords.

The British hymns and folk songs existing long before Amazing Grace ever occurred were not 'West African.'

The guy presents a falsehood in claiming that sort of melody is exclusive to 'West Africa.'

BY THE WAY--What does he think of the African muslims slaughtering all the Christian blacks in Nigeria, Sudan, etc????????????????????? at the present time.
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