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  2. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    Porter, James (2001). "Mode §IV: Modal Scales and Traditional Music". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers. Powers, Harold S. (2001). "Mode". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John ...

  3. Modal jazz - Wikipedia

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    Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece.. Though exerting influence to the present, modal jazz was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the success of Miles Davis's 1958 composition "Milestones" and 1959 album Kind of Blue, and John Coltrane's quartet ...

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    With; used in very many musical directions, for example con allegrezza (with liveliness), con calma (calmly lit. ' with calm '); (see also col and colla) con dolcezza See dolce con sordina or con sordine (plural) With a mute, or with mutes. Frequently seen in music as (incorrect Italian) con sordino, or con sordini (plural). concerto

  5. Modal frame - Wikipedia

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    A modal frame in music [1] is "a number of types permeating and unifying African, European, and American song" and melody. [2] It may also be called a melodic mode. "Mode" and "frame" are used interchangeably in this context without reference to scalar or rhythmic modes.

  6. Modality - Wikipedia

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    Modality (music), in music, the subject concerning certain diatonic scales; Modalities (sociology), a concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory; Modal logic (philosophy), a form of logic which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths"

  7. Phrygian mode - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Aeolian mode - Wikipedia

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    The Aeolian mode is a musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the natural minor scale.On the piano, using only the white keys, it is the scale that starts with A and continues to the next A only striking white keys.

  9. Falsetto - Wikipedia

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    Falsetto (/ f ɔː l ˈ s ɛ t oʊ, f ɒ l-/ fawl-SET-oh, fol-, Italian:; Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.