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The entire raison d’être of modal music is to stretch the umbilical cord which connects it to its fundamental generating principle (the primal frequency) to the limit, only to be drawn inexorably back to the point of its beginning — and thus its ending. At this “point” when it once again becomes One with its creator, universal harmony is restored. In modal music intervals only have a function as they are related to their “creator”, not to each other. without their fundamental they cannot exist.(…)

It is literally pars pro toto.

Aurality (i.e. the ear) is the medium through which modality prospers, this and the body, which generates vibrations which the ear then follows. Modality can only be truly generated orally. If one aurally perceptible link is removed the circular or spiral chain is broken and the process of modal disintegration begins. (…)

The influence of tonality is insidious and deadly, that is if one has not learned to recognize its characteristics and to separate them from those of modality.

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