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The Phrygian mode (pronounced / ˈ f r ɪ dʒ i ə n /) can refer to three different musical modes: the ancient Greek tonos or harmonia, sometimes called Phrygian, formed on a particular set of octave species or scales; the medieval Phrygian mode, and the modern conception of the Phrygian mode as a diatonic scale, based on the latter.
The term Gypsy scale refers to one of several musical scales named after their support of and association with Romani or "Gypsy" music: Double harmonic scale (major), the fifth mode of Hungarian minor, or Double Harmonic minor, scale, also known as the Byzantine scale.
The Phrygian mode is very similar to the modern natural minor scale (see Aeolian mode below). The only difference with respect to the natural minor scale is in the second scale degree, which is a minor second (m2) above the tonic, rather than a major second (M2). Tonic triad: Em; Tonic seventh chord: Em 7; Dominant triad: Bdim
Nardis makes use harmonically and melodically of the Phrygian dominant scale and the minor Gypsy scale (technically known as the double harmonic scale), and it is set in thirty-two-bar AABA form. Bill Evans usually played the piece in E minor.
Measures 5–6 of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.. Tchaikovsky’s piece, “Marche slave”, has a main theme using the Hungarian minor scale.. The Pink Panther Theme, originally played in the key of E minor, is noted for its quirky, unusual use of chromaticism which is derived from this scale.
The double harmonic major scale [1] is a musical scale with a flattened second and sixth degree.This scale is enharmonic to the Mayamalavagowla raga, Bhairav raga, Byzantine scale, Arabic scale (Hijaz Kar), [1] [2] and Gypsy major scale. [3]
Flamenco mode Play ⓘ.. In music theory, the flamenco mode (also Major-Phrygian) is a harmonized mode or scale abstracted from its use in flamenco music. In other words, it is the collection of pitches in ascending order accompanied by chords representing the pitches and chords used together in flamenco songs and pieces.
King Priam's wife Hecabe is usually said to be of Phrygian birth, as a daughter of King Dymas. The Phrygian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Phrygia. Marsyas, a Phrygian follower of Cybele, was a satyr who is regarded as the inventor of the aulos, which he created using the hollowed antler of a stag.