Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music

Basic Music Theory

CHAPTER

CHAPTER 24 SCALES A LA MODE

In This Chapter

• What is a Mode?


• Ionic Mode


• Dorian Mode


• Phrygian Mode


• Lydian Mode


• Mixolydian Mode


• Aeolian Mode


• Locrian Mode

Musical innovation is full of danger to

the State, for when modes of music

change, the laws of the State always

change with them.

— Plato, The Republic