| Dorian Mode |
Article Index for Dorian |
Website Links For Dorian |
Information AboutDorian Mode |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT DORIAN MODE | |
| modes | |
|
GREEK DORIAN MODE The Dorian mode is named after the . MEDIEVAL AND MODERN DORIAN MODE The early Christian church developed a system of eight musical modes (the Octoechos ), which mediaeval music scholars related to the ancient Greek modes. Misinterpreting the Latin texts of Boethius , medieval modes were given the wrong Greek names. Thus, in medieval and modern music, the Dorian mode is a Diatonic Scale or Musical Mode which corresponds to the white keys of the piano from "D" to "D". It may be considered an "excerpt" of a Major Scale played from the Pitch a Whole Tone above the major scale's Tonic (in the key of C Major it would be D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D), i.e., a major scale played from its second Scale Degree up to its second degree again. The resulting scale is, however, ''minor'' (or has a minor "feel" or character) because as the "D" becomes the new tonal centre the minor third between the D and the F make us "hear minor". If we build a chord on the tonic, third and fifth, it is a minor chord. The formula for this can be shown as: :Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step or more simply: :whwwwhw Examples of the Dorian mode include:
The Dorian mode is Symmetric , meaning that the pattern of tones and Semitone s (T-s-T-T-T-s-T) is the same ascending or descending. Examples of the mode's use include " What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor " and " Scarborough Fair ". When played correctly, Greensleeves is also (mostly) in the Dorian mode: the difference between the Dorian mode and the modern natural minor scale is well exemplified in the relative "hardness" of the 5th note of the tune (in the modern minor scale, this note would be a semitone lower; indeed the air is often heard or sung in this "modernised", incorrect way). The Dorian mode is equivalent to the Natural Minor Scale (or the Aeolian Mode ) but with the sixth degree raised a semi-tone. Confusingly, the medieval and modern Dorian mode is the same as the Greek Phrygian Mode . Notable songs in Dorian mode
EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|