Leonard Bernstein playing rock music

Culled from a few episodes of Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. Hopefully more to come as I watch the rest.

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[rockclimber21]

now I REALLY want to know what mixolydian means.

[TimboBandit]

@rockclimber21 It's what you call the collection of whole steps and half steps you get when you start the Major scale from the fifth degree

The modes aren't "different" scales, as much as they're just different ways to think about the major scale

[Lokus199]

what is the song name at 0:39 ?

[TimboBandit]

"Along Comes Mary", by a band called The Association

[darkprose]

In music, Bernstein was, is and will forever be, the man.

[brienkmeehan]

1:30 "My baby does the hanky panky ... mixolydian!" :-)

[ptm5150]

@rockclimber21 For example, in Palestrina's second book of Madrigali spirituali (1594), nos.24–7 use CHIAVETTE to represent the higher (authentic) Mixolydian mode, while nos.28–30 use normal soprano, alto, tenor and bass clefs to represent the lower (plagal) Hypomixolydian.

-Oxford Dictionary of Music

TimboBandit is right, that's exactly how we use it today but by coincidence I just happen to be looking at the history when I came across this video so why not paste it in...

[ptm5150]

@rockclimber21 with extensions ‘by licence’ up to a′ and even down to e. In addition to the final, the note d′ – the tenor of the corresponding seventh psalm tone – was regarded as having an important melodic function in the fifth church mode.

In the Renaissance the term ‘Mixolydian’ was sometimes applied to polyphony. In modally ordered collections, pieces ending on G in cantus durus are usually divided into two groups using different clefs.

[ptm5150]

@rockclimber21 The common name for the seventh of the eight church modes, the authentic mode on G. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Mixolydian mode was described in two ways: as the diatonic octave species from g to g′, divided at d′ and composed of a fourth species of 5th (tone–tone–semitone–tone) plus a first species of 4th (tone–semitone–tone), thus g–a–b–c′–d′+ d′–e′–f′–g′; and as a mode whose FINAL was g and whose AMBITUS was f–g′,

[azkeyz]

I find myself in a position of throwing myself at bernstein as if he were some kind of strong fortress to hide under from all this trash they call music.

all the theory in the universe isn't going to make anyone a musician.

[kdiamantikos]

Indeed... it is mixolydian...

[PabloTerraga]

@TimboBandit Dear friend, you're wrong. The major scale is one of the 7 modes. Our musical world was modal just before it changes to tonal several centurys ago ; )

[Capcoor]

@TimboBandit G to G,no sharps.

[yukikoforevernoise]

LEONARD BERNSTEIN SINGING A SONG ABOUT MARIJUANA!?

[liszt141]

Bernstein. Brilliant pianist. Brilliant conductor. Brilliant composer.

Horrifying singer.

[quelbop]

Thanks Bernstein. I'm going to use this mixolydian mode when i improvise for dance classes.