Questions tagged [modes]
For questions concerning the musical modes. These can include historical views of mode by the Greeks or the various rotations of scale collections. Questions about historical views of mode should also include the history tag.
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Naming of parent keys and their modes
Just come across a jazz tune - After Hours, as it happens - which is said to be in D♭ Dorian. That would make more sense to be called C♯ Dorian, or would it - as D♭ Dorian would put the parent key as ...
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F Lydian chord progression: is that correct?
If the chord progression is as follows
|: F | Am | C | G :|
can we say we are in the key of F Lydian?
We have all the notes of C major key, but F major chord seems to have a central role in this ...
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What are so-called 'parallel modes' modes OF?
'Mode' is an inherently relational term roughly synonymous of 'way' or 'manner' in which something can manifest itself, and, therefore, to say that something finds itself, functions, appears, etc. in ...
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Are there names for these scales (locrian with added ♮6, phrygian with added ♮3)?
My jazz teacher has me practice scales by playing through a song and playing a scale for each measure.
Mostly this involves playing the scale of the current key center starting from the root of the ...
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Why think of the Aeolian mode as an altered *major* scale?
I'm working through the book The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills: Sight Singing, by Murphy, Phillips, Marvin, Clendenning (Third Edition), which in general I am finding to be excellent, but something ...
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Tonic of small piece
Obviously, for large polyphony works it is impossible to use the term "tonic".
But if we look at small pieces, like my favourite Bach Cello Suites (especially parts), it seems "tonic of ...
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Chromatic note and mode degrees
I’m into generative music (and know that classical music specialists are skeptical about it).
But it’s a non-profit project, just self-development and research.
Also sorry for the inaccuracies in ...
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Why do key signatures switch from flats to sharps at a certain mode brightness?
I'm looking at Hooktheory's Key Cheat Sheet Index. I've noticed that for each key signature where the root is a black note, the choice to use a sharp or flat in the key signature's name changes in ...
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Heart Alone as example of Phrygian mode, what key should be reflected in transcription? [duplicate]
The very popular Heart 80s balad Alone changes between Bb Phrygian (chorus, parts of guitar lead) and Bb minor (verses). Bb Phrygian can be represented by Gb major key signature (6 flats), while Bb ...
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Pythagoras and his Scale Degrees: Modes [duplicate]
Why did Pythagoras name each scale/modal degree off regions of Greece?
1.) Ionian
2.) Dorian
3.) Phyrigian
4.) Lydian
5.) Mixolydian
6.) Aeolian
7.) Locrian
Are they characteristics of the music of ...
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Harmonizing modes other than major and minor
Everywhere I turn for a lesson on music theory I see a way to harmonize the major scale (Ionian) and the minor scale (Aeolian) but they never harmonize the other modes of the major scale. Any help ...
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How does harmonic progression work in modes which aren't Ionian and Aeolian? [duplicate]
I have seen some similar questions to this but nothing that quite cuts close enough.
In major and minor, it is widely considered that harmonic progression works as follows (broadly speaking- don't ...
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Decomposing Persian maqam into their component tetra/penta-chords
I'm trying to identify the individual tetrachords and pentachords which the various modes are built out of in Persian traditional music, but I am having trouble finding information on it. It seems the ...
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Did hexachordal theory influence the construction of melodic phrases in Renaissance music?
I'm currently reading Gauldin's Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint, Greene's Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint, and Schubert's Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance style.
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What is going on theory-wise with this passage of music?
A long time ago I wrote a song, and I am just now putting it through Hookpad to see how it works musically, and there’s this one part that I have no idea how it works but it does.
It goes like this:
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