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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. 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).

  4. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    The Locrian mode is traditionally considered theoretical rather than practical because the triad built on the first scale degree is diminished. Because diminished triads are not consonant they do not lend themselves to cadential endings and cannot be tonicized according to traditional practice. The Ionian mode corresponds to the major scale.

  5. 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.

  6. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Ionian mode or major scale: Ionian on C. Play ... Ukrainian Dorian mode on C. Play ...

  7. Harmonic major scale - Wikipedia

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    The harmonic major scale has its own set of modes, distinct from the harmonic minor, melodic minor, and major modes, depending on which note serves as the tonic.Below are the mode names, their degrees, and the following seventh chords that can be built using each modal tonic or degree of the parent mode as the root: a major seventh chord, a half-diminished seventh chord, a minor seventh chord ...

  8. Lydian mode - Wikipedia

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    The modern Lydian mode is a seven-tone musical scale formed from a rising pattern of pitches comprising ... equivalent in the diatonic genus to the modern Ionian mode ...

  9. Harmonica techniques - Wikipedia

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    1st position (or "straight harp"): Ionian mode. Playing the harmonica as it was intended, in its main major key. On a diatonic, starting note is hole 1 blow. On a C-chromatic, starting hole is the same, resulting in C major scale. This is the main position used for playing folk music on the harmonica. 2nd position (or "cross harp"): Mixolydian ...