Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A piano roll and notes on a screen. Modes are something you often hear mentioned when music theory comes up, but what exactly are ...

Play these notes starting on C and you're playing the C major scale (also known as the Ionian mode – the 'first' mode). Start on D and you're playing the second mode (D Dorian, as it happens). By the ...

In the grand panorama of Western tonality, the Aeolian mode occupies a position of both historical gravitas and contemporary ubiquity. Often simply called the “natural minor” scale by composers and ...