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  2. Mixolydian mode - Wikipedia

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    The flattened seventh of the scale is a tritone away from the mediant (major-third degree) of the key. The order of whole tones and semitones in a Mixolydian scale is whole, whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole. In the Mixolydian mode, the tonic, subdominant, and subtonic triads are all major, the mediant is diminished, and the remaining ...

  3. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual 15 equal temperament: 15-tet scale on C. Play ⓘ — — — 15 — — — 16 equal temperament: 16-tet scale on C. Play ⓘ — — — 16 — — 17 equal temperament ...

  4. Aeolian dominant scale - Wikipedia

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    The Aeolian dominant scale (Aeolian ♯ 3 scale), Mixolydian ♭ 6 scale, descending melodic major scale, or Hindu scale [1] [2] is the fifth mode of the ascending melodic minor scale. It is named Aeolian dominant because its sound derives from having a dominant seventh chord on the tonic in the context of what is otherwise the Aeolian mode .

  5. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    Aeolian ♯3 scale, Mixolydian ♭6 scale, Hindu scale, (Dorian ♯3 ♭6 scale) half diminished scale, Locrian ♮2 scale, Aeolian ♭5 scale: altered scale, altered dominant scale, super Locrian scale, Locrian ♭4 scale: jazz minor scale, ascending melodic minor: Dorian ♭2 scale, Phrygian ♮6 scale: Lydian augmented scale, Lydian ♯5 ...

  6. Phrygian dominant scale - Wikipedia

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    The augmented second between its second and third scale degrees gives it an "Arabic" or Middle Eastern feeling to Western listeners. In the Berklee method, it is known as the Mixolydian ♭ 9 ♭ 13 chord scale, a Mixolydian scale with a lowered 9th (2nd) and lowered 13th (6th), used in secondary dominant chord scales for V 7 /III and V 7 /VI.

  7. Acoustic scale - Wikipedia

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    In music, the acoustic scale, overtone scale, [1] Lydian dominant scale (Lydian ♭ 7 scale), [2] [3] or the Mixolydian ♯ 4 scale is a seven-note synthetic scale. It is the fourth mode of the ascending melodic minor scale .

  8. Harmonica techniques - Wikipedia

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    2nd position (or "cross harp"): Mixolydian mode. Playing the harmonica in a key a fourth below its intended key. Playing just the unbended notes, this position gives the mixolydian scale between 2 draw and 6 blow. However, bending the 3 draw allows the player to play a minor third (or a blue third), allowing a player to use a C harmonica to ...

  9. Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    This scale is known as the Pythagorean diatonic and is the scale that Plato adopted in the construction of the world soul in the Timaeus (36a-b). [12] The next notable Pythagorean theorist known today is Archytas, contemporary and friend of Plato, who explained the use of arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means in tuning musical instruments.