Name: Portuguese Rain by Robin Andrews Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Robin Andrews
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Portuguese Rain
by Robin Andrews Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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A melody in the Lydian Mode written in Portugal.

There's not many tunes written in the Lydian mode, so harmonising them presents an interesting creative challenge. The basic idea here is that the chords from a D major scale are used, but the "home" note is G. Also, the strong A-D cadence is lost, so we have to find another cadence which will provide a similar tension/release effect. In the Lydian mode this can be achieved with Bm-G, A-G or Em-G. One really interesting aspect of the Lydian mode in G is that Em is still the relative minor, except it comes out as Dorian. So if the B part of a tune tune moves to the relative minor as this one does, then it can be treated as an E Dorian tune in its own right.

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