Mode (music)
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In music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.
Excerpt from Boethius' De musica depicting a scale
Modes Illustrated Using Movable Do Solfege (USA)
Diatonic scale
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In music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps and two half steps in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or thr
Mode (music)
…type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic and harmonic behaviors. It is applied to major and minor keys as well as the seven diatonic modes (including the former as Ionian and Aeolian) which are defined by their starting note or tonic. (Olivier Messiaen's modes of limited transposition are…
The modern piano keyboard is based on the interval patterns of the diatonic scale. Any sequence of seven successive white keys plays a diatonic scale.