Excerpts from GChat - Mixolydian

10:39 AM Jennifer: oh. my. gosh. I have to tell you about the toy we saw at Babies 'R Us

it was one of those glockenspiel type toys

10:40 AM and I've been wanting to get one of those for James

and it was a cool one because you could hit it with the mallet, but it was also attached to a keyboard so you could play it that way

10:41 AM I totally thought we were going to buy it...and then I hit the "ti" key

me: ooh, nice

and?

Jennifer: the leading tone was a full half step flat!!

me: what

that is beyond stupid

Jennifer: it was like...do, re, mi, fa, so, la, TAY, do!

me: how was it supposed to be a ti, then?

10:42 AM it couldn't lead anywhere!

Jennifer: I was like, you've got to be kidding me

and it wasn't just a bad egg...all of them were the same!

I couldn't believe it

10:43 AM shocked and appalled

me: they just straight up tuned them all wrong?

10:44 AM Jennifer: I guess!

it showed up in my nightmare that night

me: hahahaha

Jennifer: in my dream I was going to complain about it online but then I read somewhere that it was intentional

10:45 AM that they were encouraging children to learn both major and minor tonalities, and they were doing that by having a major tetrachord followed by a minor one

so I couldn't even complain about it!

me: hahahahaha

Jennifer: even though that's still ridiculous...even if it were true

me: dorkiest dream EVER

Jennifer: yeah well ;)

10:46 AM me: definitely going on my blog

oh snap

Jennifer: stealing my material, huh? ;)

jk

me: hey, you'll get full credit

Jennifer: oh joy

ha ha

10:47 AM which mode is that? I can't remember

it's the one before aeolian

me: a major followed by a minor?

Jennifer: a scale with a lowered 7th

10:48 AM me: the funny one

that sounds middle eastern?

hmmmm

Jennifer: brb...

I'm gonna google it when I get back

10:50 AM me: k

10:51 AM Jennifer: mixolydian

the dang toy was in mixolydian mode

me: yes!

yes

10:52 AM now that's just wrong

Jennifer: there's just no reason for that

me: we're in America!

Jennifer: no possible justification

me: nope