Locrian Mode - Usage

Usage

There are brief passages in works by Rachmaninov (Prelude in B minor, op. 32, no. 10), Hindemith (Ludus Tonalis), and Sibelius (Symphony no. 4 in A minor, op. 63) that have been, or may be, regarded as in the Locrian mode.

Debussy's Jeux has three extended passages in the Locrian mode.

The theme of the second movement ("Turandot Scherzo") of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943) alternates sections in Mixolydian and Locrian modes, ending in Locrian.

English folk musician John Kirkpatrick's song "Dust to Dust" was written in the Locrian mode, backed by his accordion. The Locrian mode is not at all traditional in English music, but was used by Kirkpatrick as a musical innovation.

Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk used the Locrian mode for the bass part of her 1995 hit "Army of Me".

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