Am 26. Mai 2007 um 3:04am schrieb turpin d'isigny-ffytche:

> *the seven are named (starting with the one beginning on C):  ionian, 
> dorian phygian lydian mixolydian aeolian hypophrygian. Of these, 
> Lydian, the one starting/finishing on F, does not exist in the I-VIII 
> categgorization of church modes in Wikipedia

The wikipeda article calls these 'modern modes', which gives no 
historical information, because the idea of modernity was alive and 
well in feudal europe. Modernity is simply the idea that you can do 
better than the ancients, as the inhabitants of Christendom might have 
felt they were given such things as the gothic vault, the modal 
computer and the watermill

It is intersting that the I-VIII modes use (if discreetly, in III and 
VII) one of the modal computer's black notes, Bflat. This seems to be 
consilient ('jumping together') with the fact that german gives this 
note an own, non-derivative name - H

And I wonder if there is any iconographic trace of a corresponding 
keyboard, that gives  H&B as a split 'white key' and only 4 
accidentals(?)