Eales, Geoff - Lochrias Rhumba (alto flute & piano) *AMEB Publications modal tunes and blues

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Eales, Geoff - Lochrias Rhumba (alto flute & piano) *AMEB Publications modal tunes and bluesDescription: The outer core of this piece is firmly rooted in the Lochrian mode (all the white notes from B B on the piano) with no chromatic elements present from 1 14 and 48 73. By contrast, its central portion is tonally ambivalent, the music forever changing its centre of gravity. Though it is the Lochrian mode that, above all, gives the piece its essential flavour, there is a subtle change to the Phrygian (white notes E E) near the end (66 69),