Dorian mode

The Dorian mode is the natural minor scale with a raised sixth.

Less often, a minor scale with a major sixth (Dorian mode).

The Dorian mode is commonly used in funk because of its major/minor sound.

In musical terminology, the minor scale that results is called the Dorian mode.

Much of the symphony is in fact in the (modern) Dorian mode.

Click over to the next page to try your hand at a chromatic lick using the Dorian mode.

The song is written in (modern) Dorian mode.

"Greensleeves" is also often played in a natural minor scale and sometimes in the Dorian mode.

This first video takes a look at a chromatic lick in A minor using the Dorian mode.

Singing minor-key songs in the Dorian mode instead of the natural minor is felt by some to give the music greater character and strength.

The hymn is sung in Dorian mode, giving it in a haunting quality.

The chorale melody in Dorian mode is present in all movements but the first aria.

The Dorian mode is a subset of the major scale, which, in turn, falls within the chromatic scale.

Examples of the Dorian mode include:

Each is in the Dorian mode.)

The bass's C pedal, becomes the tonic, when the key changes to either the aeolian or dorian modes.

The lead melody, however, is taken primarily from the somewhat lighter Dorian mode (minor scale with sharpened sixth degree; see article).

The Dorian mode is named after the Dorians Greeks.

The piece employs the Dorian mode (with flattened thirds and sevenths) that was used in ancient Greece.

The Dorian mode is very similar to the modern natural minor scale (see Aeolian mode below).

Russell Jackson agrees, noting that "nothing of the overtly Dorian mode is to be found in the finished play or its drafts."

The Fm key melody in the verse is tinged both by blues flat 7th, and dorian mode raised 6th notes.

The song is a soulful melody, written in Dorian Mode, about love and heartbreak using instrumentation of a violin.

In its earliest form, it is based on a chromatically descending tetrachord which arises naturally out of the dorian mode.

Katsanzaira (Dorian mode), the highest pitch of the traditional mbira tunings.