The following remarks are intended as a very partial reply to Professor Norman Cazden's attack on the employment of conventional modal terminology in the analysis of British-American traditional song-tunes. [Refs. here to IFMC Yearbook III (1971), 45–78, and to his “Notes on the Analysis of Traditional Song Tunes” in Edith Fowke, Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods. American Folklore Society, Memoir Series Publications, Vol. 55, 1970, pp. 11–22].