Timeline for How did the ancient greek Ionic dialect become the name of the first mode of the diatonic major scale?
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| Nov 10, 2021 at 11:27 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | Agreed, I’m a bit puzzled by the linguistic word “dialect.” While I see from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionians that the tribes did in fact have their own dialect, it seems more likely that the modes were named “for” the tribes themselves, or for their associated geographic regions. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 9:45 | comment | added | phoog | Why do you think the modes were named after dialects? The word "German" in "German shepherd" does not refer to the German language, for example. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 5:40 | answer | added | Aaron | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 5:23 | history | asked | Randy Zeitman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |