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Major mode   /mˈeɪdʒər moʊd/   Listen
Major mode

noun
1.
A key whose harmony is based on the major scale.  Synonym: major key.






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"Major mode" Quotes from Famous Books



... scale resembles our European scale of twelve semitones (twenty-two s'rutis, quarter-tones), but the modal development of these sounds has been extraordinary. Now a "mode" is the manner in which the notes of a scale are arranged. For instance, in our major mode the scale is arranged as follows: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone. In India there are at present seventy-two modes in use which are produced by making seventy-two different arrangements of the scale ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell



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