Properties Of Musical Modes
The modern musical modes consist of seven different scales related to the familiar major and minor keys, each with different properties and characteristics which distinguish them from one another. Called the Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes, each of these seven modal scales is composed of a particular arrangement of the diatonic tones of an octave.
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