wolflen

somewhere in the book chord chemistry..ted greene does an analysis on a song he arranged..now there is a chord in the progression that "doesn't belong" to the key of the song..ted says .. he experimented and this chord sounded good..ted rarely used the term mode..and for good reason..he stressed creativity/experiment over written theory rules..and found little wrong with chord progression that don't follow rules if they sound good..

ernest toch in his book "the shaping forces in music" says the same thing but in a more classical setting..with examples of the classical masters..

not to say ted didn't follow theory rules...he did indeed..he just knew they are not absolute..

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Arby911

Let's try an experiment. Go do it. See how long it stands.

I'm betting less than 24 hours.

Wikipedia has it's flaws, but by its very nature is continuously self-correcting, contrary to your inference.

As to the OP, damned if I know. I generally come here to lurk, learn and amuse myself by reading the mode arguments...

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白い雲

Go away, stop derailing my thread! lol

20Tigers

Just curious, what are the theory rules you're talking about?

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Angusman60

Perhaps general counterpoint and general harmonic function rules?

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白い雲

wolflen made a mistake, he broke the rule that you're not allowed to say "rules" when talking about theory

wolflen

the usual suspects...

rule 1: there are no rules

rule 2: forget rule one