What Is A Mode?

The video tutorial introduces musical modes, explaining their historical context and current understanding. It compares tonal and modal music, highlighting their similarities and differences. The tutorial covers the diatonic collection and Greek modes, focusing on the Dorian and Mixolydian modes. It provides an overview of all seven modes, categorizing them into major and minor based on intervals. A mnemonic device is shared to help remember the order of the modes.

What is a mode in the context of music theory?

• A type of musical notation

• A rhythm pattern

• A type of scale with unique melodic properties

• A type of musical instrument

In modal music, what is the 'home note' commonly referred to as?

• Tonic

• Final

• Dominant

• Subdominant

Which mode starts on the second scale degree of the C major scale?

• Lydian

• Dorian

• Phrygian

• Ionian

What is the fifth mode called, and which note does it start on in the C major scale?

• Ionian, starting on C

• Dorian, starting on D

• Mixolydian, starting on G

• Lydian, starting on F

Which modes are considered major due to the interval between the first and third scale degrees?

• Ionian, Dorian, Locrian

• Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian

• Dorian, Phrygian, Locrian

• Ionian, Lydian, Mixolydian