Greek modes chart

1. What are the Greek modes?
2. What are the 7 Greek modes?
3. Where do the Greek modes come from?
4. How many modes are there in music?

What are the Greek modes?

The eight modes

Seven of them were given names identical with those used in the musical theory of ancient Greece: Dorian, Hypodorian, Phrygian, Hypophrygian, Lydian, Hypolydian, and Mixolydian, while the name of the eighth mode, Hypomixolydian, was adapted from the Greek.

What are the 7 Greek modes?

Modes are named after the ancient Greek modes, although they do not share an actual similarity. For every key signature, there are exactly seven modes of the major scale: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.

Where do the Greek modes come from?

These names are derived from an Ancient Greek subgroup (Dorians), a small region in central Greece (Locris), and certain neighboring peoples (non-Greek but related to them) from Asia Minor (Lydia, Phrygia).

How many modes are there in music?

The major scale contains seven modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian. Modes are a way to reorganize the pitches of a scale so that the focal point of the scale changes. In a single key, every mode contains the exact same pitches.