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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Major scale, Musical mode, Minor scale, Musical system of ancient greece, Mugham, Arabian maqam, Raga, List of makams, Octoechos, Phrygian mode, Dorian mode, Modes of limited transposition, Mixolydian mode, Properties of musical modes, Locrian mode, Aeolian mode, Dastgah, Reciting tone, That, Gregorian mode, Nenano, Double harmonic scale, Muqam, Plagal mode, Flamenco mode, Hypolydian mode, Ionian mode, Hypophrygian mode, Hypodorian mode, Authentic mode, Hypoaeolian mode, Hypolocrian mode, Rast, Sigah, Algerian scale, Half diminished scale, Bayati, Ajam, Hypoionian mode, Jins, Japanese mode, Gurjari Raga. Excerpt: In modern Western music, mode (from Latin modus, "measure, standard, manner, way") is a concept that involves scale and melody type. Historically, the word had other possible meanings. In the early medieval period, it meant interval. In the late medieval period, it meant the rhythmic relationship between long and short values (Powers 2001, Introduction). Since the end of the eighteenth century, the term has also applied-in ethnomusicological contexts-to pitch structures in non-European musical cultures, sometimes with doubtful compatibility (Powers 2001, V,1). This article addresses the medieval and modern scale and melody-type meaning. A "scale" is an ordered series of intervals that, with the key or tonic (first tone), defines that scale's intervals, or steps. However, in the modern sense, "mode" is usually used in the sense of "scale," applied only to the seven specific diatonic scales (using only the seven tones of the scale without chromatic alterations, e.g., using only the white keys on a piano or keyboard) that follow the tonic note. The use of more than one mode makes music polymodal, as with polymodal chromaticism. Modern musicological practice has extended the concept of mode to earlier musical ...
