Composing with modes

This post continues the series about music that I have composed over the years; previous installments can be found here and here.

The composition under discussion today is one that I wrote in my mid teens. Melinda, my music teacher at the time, introduced me to the musical modes - those exotic scales that can be obtained by using the notes of the C Major scale but with a note other than C as the root. She set me the task of composing a tune that exploited the concept, and I came up with something that used several modes within the one piece.

Hitherto, this piece of music has never been written down, but as of today it can be found on my website. It did have a name, but not a very good one. Feel free to suggest a new name for it.

I didn’t have Melinda as a teacher for very long, because she left the area after she got married. I remember this well because I helped to mix the drinks at the reception.