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Posts Tagged ‘modes’

The Church Modes: Ancient Scales, Modern Music

By Richard Kahn | August 25, 2026 | 0
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Before major and minor became the dominant scales of Western music, composers worked within a system of seven modes — ordered sets of pitches derived from the…

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