The music was not entirely composed in the medieval mode, Uematsu claims that "it would be unbalanced" and "a little boring".

Seeger went further and synthesized the widest variety of musical events: unconventional rhythms, tone clusters, popular melodies, medieval modes.

In its "periodo medioevale" or medieval mode, the work focused on images of Jesus and the Virgin, or the Lamb of God.

The early modern trends in various regions of the world represented a shift away from medieval modes of organization, sometimes politically and other-times economically.

The symphony is constructed around simple harmonies, set in a neo-modal style which makes use of the medieval musical modes, but does not adhere strictly to medieval rules of composition.

The name comes from the Salve Regina, a catholic psalm, and many still sing a sacred, a cappella salve that preserves the medieval modes of old Spanish hymns.

Working over a intricate and varied Minimalist grid, he samples Latin rhythms, Renaissance polyphony, medieval modes and a few Broadway-style progressions.

"Ogives," with its unvarying medieval modes, assumes vast, austere dimensions at the pianist's slow tempo.

Some writers trace the process to the medieval mode of trial by combat, in which some litigants, notably women, were allowed a champion to represent them.

Between the book cases were pictures which dealt with many forms of punishment, from ancient horrors through medieval modes of torture.