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  2. Ionian mode - Wikipedia

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    The Ionian mode is a musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the major scale.It is named after the Ionian Greeks.. It is the name assigned by Heinrich Glarean in 1547 to his new authentic mode on C (mode 11 in his numbering scheme), which uses the diatonic octave species from C to the C an octave higher, divided at G (as its dominant, reciting tone/reciting note or tenor ...

  3. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Ionian mode or major scale: Ionian on C. Play ... Min'yō scale on D, equivalent to yo scale on C, with brackets on fourths. Play ...

  4. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    The Ionian mode corresponds to the major scale. Scales in the Lydian mode are major scales with an augmented fourth. The Mixolydian mode corresponds to the major scale with a minor seventh. The Aeolian mode is identical to the natural minor scale. The Dorian mode corresponds to the natural minor scale with a major sixth.

  5. Major scale - Wikipedia

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    The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales . Like many musical scales, it is made up of seven notes : the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note (from Latin "octavus", the eighth).

  6. Diatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The major scale or Ionian mode is one of the diatonic scales. It is made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth that duplicates the first an octave higher. The pattern of seven intervals separating the eight notes is T–T–S–T–T–T–S.

  7. Circle of thirds - Wikipedia

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    This cycle of 48 notes is a sequence of the first four notes of each major scale in the order of fifths from the circle of fifths. This cycle also contains all the Major/Ionian scales (overlapping) in the order of fifths with Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian modes also included for each Major group (e.g. C Ionian, D Dorian, E Phrygian, F Lydian).

  8. 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.

  9. Minor scale - Wikipedia

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    the ascending melodic minor scale or jazz minor scale (also known as the Ionian ♭ 3 or Dorian ♯ 7): this form of the scale is also the 5th mode of the acoustic scale. the descending melodic minor scale: this form is identical to the natural minor scale . The ascending and descending forms of the A melodic minor scale are shown below: