Back to modality. Musical Modes Revisited

François Picard’s paper counterpoints Marchand’s questionings in his "Une musique modale de tradition populaire en Occident – Tribune d'Erik Marchand". However, Picard expands the discourse starting from a general standpoint of modal definition and enters into pentatonic structures reminding the reader that the two forms may not be confused. The writer relates of his own experience gathered from his acquaintance with Trần Văn Khê and other experts of modality in France and elsewhere to which he adds recent analyses undertaken with Monika and Psautiers softwares.