Identifying modes
- Identify the quality of tonic. Listen for the tonic pitch. ...
- Listen and look for ^7 . Compare the ^7 to the leading tone a half-step below tonic that we typically hear in minor and major songs. ...
- Listen and look for other raised color notes—^4 in major, and ^6 in minor.
How do you figure out modes?
The mode of a data set is the number that occurs most frequently in the set. To easily find the mode, put the numbers in order from least to greatest and count how many times each number occurs. The number that occurs the most is the mode!
How do you identify medieval modes?
Medieval modes (also called Gregorian mode or church modes) were numbered, either from 1 to 8, or from 1 to 4 in pairs (authentic/plagal), in which case they were usually named protus (first), deuterus (second), tertius (third), and tetrardus (fourth), but sometimes also named after the ancient Greek tonoi (with which, ...