how music works 2

the thing about knowing what those mode names refer to means i finally have a tag for stuff. in summary, i like my music to be in major or minor keys, preferably 3 or 4 beats to a measure, ideally from the european eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. stuff i heartily dislike, like scarborough fair, is likely to be in some medieval mode like dorian. as is greensleeves, and various other english and irish folk songs, which i now realize are served up in the mode most calculated to curdle my body fluids. i'm thinking these are the western equivalent of chinese opera, which is solidly built upon the upper screeches of the pentatonic scales. 

call a mode a mode, i say, because i now know it is a mode.