Modes (Part 3)

I want to write more about modes! I’ve been playing music and thinking about modes all along, but now I have more to say. In Part 1, I described the 7 modes formed by starting the major scale at various points:

I linked to videos where you could hear samples of music in each of these modes. I showed how to order them from ‘bright’ to ‘dark’:

and I showed that inverting these modes maps the brighter modes to the darker ones, reversing the order of brightness, with Dorian getting mapped to ...

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Published on June 17, 2023 23:08
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