Songs in phrygian

1. What does Phrygian sound like?
2. What is the meaning of Phrygian in music?

What does Phrygian sound like?

The phrygian mode is one of the darkest sounding modes as so many of the notes are flattened (lowered a semitone). ... It's also very similar to the natural minor scale except the 2nd note which is minor rather than major.

What is the meaning of Phrygian in music?

: a musical cadence in which the root of the final chord is approached from a semitone above especially : the cadence in which the first inversion of a minor subdominant (see subdominant entry 2 sense a) resolves to a dominant (see dominant entry 2 sense 2b) Mozart leads into it with a Phrygian cadence on E, the ...