What is a mode? What differentiates it from a scale or range? How to approach it, use it, understand it? Does it have equivalents in other musical cultures? where does it come from historically?
This book, theoretical and practical, can be approached at different levels of knowledge. It is entirely devoted to the fashions of the world. Only three or four are commonly used in Western music, yet there are hundreds of them, thus expanding musical language.
Amateur or professional musicians, improvisers, teachers, composers, musicologists ... everyone has his request, and each one finds his answer thanks to the different entries of the book: planisphere, research tree, keyboard prints, tablatures, rosettes of transposition, and even a intuitive search software. Specific chapters deal with classical, contemporary, jazz, blues, Indian, Arabic, klezmer ...