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An aeolian mode formed part of the Music Theory of Ancient Greece , based around the relative natural scale in A (that is, the same as playing all the 'white notes' of a piano from A to A). Greek theory called this simple scale the Hypodorian Mode in , and the aeolian and Locrian modes must have formed different (perhaps Chromatic ) variations of this.

The term ''aeolian mode'' fell into disuse in mediaeval Europe, as and Plagal counterparts.

In as its dominant, Reciting Note or '' Tenor ''. The tenth mode, the plagal version of the aeolian mode, Glarean called ''hypaeolian'' ("under aeolian"), based on the same relative scale, but with the Minor Third as its tenor, and having a melodic range from a Perfect Fourth below the tonic to a Perfect Fifth above it.

As .

The aeolian mode consists of the same components as the Major Mode with the minor's sixth Scale Degree as its tonic. Examples include:

  • C Aeolian mode - the E♭ major scale starting on C; the Key Signature has three flats.

  • G Aeolian mode - the B♭ major scale starting on G; the Key Signature has two flats.

  • D Aeolian mode - the F major scale starting on D; the Key Signature has one flat.

  • A Aeolian mode - the C major scale starting on A; the Key Signature has no sharps or flats.

  • E Aeolian mode - the G major scale starting on E; the Key Signature has one sharp.

  • B Aeolian mode - the D major scale starting on B; the key signature has two sharps.

  • F# Aeolian mode - the A major scale starting on F#; the key signature has three sharps.

  • C# Aeolian mode - the E major scale starting on C#; the Key Signature has four sharps.


The Aeolian mode's intervallic formula when compared to the major scale consists of flatting the 3rd, 6th, and 7th scale degrees.

Many popular songs, such as the lullaby, ''Summertime'', from the 1935 '' Porgy And Bess '' musical, use the Aeolian mode.