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Due to historical confusion, '''Dorian mode''' can refer to two very different musical modes or diatonic scales.
The Dorian mode is named after the Dorian Greeks. In Greek music theory it was based on the Dorian tetrachord: descending, a series of falling intervals of two whole tones followed by a semitone. Applied to a whole octave, the Dorian mode was built upon two Dorian tetrachords separated by a whole tone. This is the same as playing all the white notes of a piano (ascending, as in the modern reckoning) from E to E: E F G A | B C D E. Placing the two tetrachords together, and the single tone at the bottom of the scale produces the Hypodorian mode (below Dorian): A | B C D E | (E) F G A. Placing the two tetrachords together, and the single tone at the top of the scale produces the Hyperdorian mode (above Dorian), which is effectively the same as the Mixolydian mode: B C D E | (E) F G A | B. Confusingly, the Greek Dorian mode is the same as the mediaeval and modern Phrygian mode.
The early Christian church developed a system of eight musical modes (the octoechos), which mediaeval music scholars related to the ancient Greek modes. Misinterpreting the Latin texts of Boethius, medieval modes were given the wrong Greek names. Thus, in medieval and modern music, the Dorian mode is a diatonic scale or musical mode which corresponds to the white keys of the piano from "D" to "D". It may be considered an "excerpt" of a major scale played from the pitch a whole tone above the major scale's tonic (in the key of C Major it would be D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D), i.e., a major scale played from its second scale degree up to its second degree again. The resulting scale is, however, ''minor'' (or has a minor "feel" or character) because as the "D" becomes the new tonal centre the minor third between the D and the F make us "hear minor". If we build a chord on the tonic, third and fifth, it is a minor chord.
The formula for this can be shown as:
:Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step
or more simply:
:whwwwhw
Examples of the Dorian mode include:
★ The D Dorian mode contains all notes the same as the C major scale starting on D.
★ The G Dorian mode contains all notes the same as the F major scale starting on G.
★ The A Dorian mode contains all notes the same as the G major scale starting on A.
The Dorian mode is symmetric, meaning that the pattern of tones and semitones (T-s-T-T-T-s-T) is the same ascending or descending. Examples of the mode's use include "What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor" and "Scarborough Fair". When played correctly, Greensleeves is also (mostly) in the Dorian mode: the difference between the Dorian mode and the modern natural minor scale is well exemplified in the relative "hardness" of the 5th note of the tune (in the modern minor scale, this note would be a semitone lower; indeed the air is often heard or sung in this "modernised", incorrect way).
The Dorian mode is equivalent to the natural minor scale (or the Aeolian mode) but with the sixth degree raised a semi-tone. Confusingly, the medieval and modern Dorian mode is the same as the Greek Phrygian mode.
★ "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles.
★ "So What" by Miles Davis alternates between D and Eb.
★ "Light My Fire" by The Doors (who used the Dorian mode in many of their songs).
★ "Black Magic Woman" by Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green.
★ The main theme and many other pieces for the ''Halo'' videogame series, including Finish the Fight, the Halo 3 Fanfare
★ "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson
★ "YYZ" by Rush in F#.
★ "La Villa Stragiato" by Rush in D.
★ "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf.
★ "Rooster" by Alice in Chains
★ "Cosmik Debris" by Frank Zappa
★ "Theme from Exodus" ("This Land Is Mine") 1960-1961 by Ernest Gold.
★ "Mad World" by Gary Jules (Original version by Tears for Fears)
★ "Scarborough Fair" (English folk tune in E Dorian made popular by Simon and Garfunkel)
★ "Reptilia" by The Strokes in B
★ The Gregorian Chant played in the Temple of Time in and
★ "The Place I'll Return to Someday" in D, from the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack, played in the starting menu. The only expection is the occasional use of G#, borrowed from A harmonic minor
★ "To Victory" from the soundtrack to the feature film 300 takes its main theme from the ancient Dorian mode (modern Phrygian); this is appropriate as Sparta was part of Doric Greece.
★ "Give it to Me Baby" by Rick James
★ "Razor Blade Alley" by Madness
★ "In the Presence of Enemies" by Dream Theater
★ "Down in a Hole" by Alice in Chains
★ "Mothership Connection" by Parliament
★ "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd
★ "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)" by Iron Maiden. The riff in the beginning is in A Dorian
★ "Fêtes" by Claude Debussy
★ Dorian mode in six positions for guitar at GOSK.com
| Contents |
| Greek Dorian mode |
| Medieval and modern Dorian mode |
| Notable songs in Dorian mode |
| External links |
Greek Dorian mode
The Dorian mode is named after the Dorian Greeks. In Greek music theory it was based on the Dorian tetrachord: descending, a series of falling intervals of two whole tones followed by a semitone. Applied to a whole octave, the Dorian mode was built upon two Dorian tetrachords separated by a whole tone. This is the same as playing all the white notes of a piano (ascending, as in the modern reckoning) from E to E: E F G A | B C D E. Placing the two tetrachords together, and the single tone at the bottom of the scale produces the Hypodorian mode (below Dorian): A | B C D E | (E) F G A. Placing the two tetrachords together, and the single tone at the top of the scale produces the Hyperdorian mode (above Dorian), which is effectively the same as the Mixolydian mode: B C D E | (E) F G A | B. Confusingly, the Greek Dorian mode is the same as the mediaeval and modern Phrygian mode.
Medieval and modern Dorian mode
The early Christian church developed a system of eight musical modes (the octoechos), which mediaeval music scholars related to the ancient Greek modes. Misinterpreting the Latin texts of Boethius, medieval modes were given the wrong Greek names. Thus, in medieval and modern music, the Dorian mode is a diatonic scale or musical mode which corresponds to the white keys of the piano from "D" to "D". It may be considered an "excerpt" of a major scale played from the pitch a whole tone above the major scale's tonic (in the key of C Major it would be D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D), i.e., a major scale played from its second scale degree up to its second degree again. The resulting scale is, however, ''minor'' (or has a minor "feel" or character) because as the "D" becomes the new tonal centre the minor third between the D and the F make us "hear minor". If we build a chord on the tonic, third and fifth, it is a minor chord.
The formula for this can be shown as:
:Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step
or more simply:
:whwwwhw
Examples of the Dorian mode include:
★ The D Dorian mode contains all notes the same as the C major scale starting on D.
★ The G Dorian mode contains all notes the same as the F major scale starting on G.
★ The A Dorian mode contains all notes the same as the G major scale starting on A.
The Dorian mode is symmetric, meaning that the pattern of tones and semitones (T-s-T-T-T-s-T) is the same ascending or descending. Examples of the mode's use include "What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor" and "Scarborough Fair". When played correctly, Greensleeves is also (mostly) in the Dorian mode: the difference between the Dorian mode and the modern natural minor scale is well exemplified in the relative "hardness" of the 5th note of the tune (in the modern minor scale, this note would be a semitone lower; indeed the air is often heard or sung in this "modernised", incorrect way).
The Dorian mode is equivalent to the natural minor scale (or the Aeolian mode) but with the sixth degree raised a semi-tone. Confusingly, the medieval and modern Dorian mode is the same as the Greek Phrygian mode.
Notable songs in Dorian mode
★ "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles.
★ "So What" by Miles Davis alternates between D and Eb.
★ "Light My Fire" by The Doors (who used the Dorian mode in many of their songs).
★ "Black Magic Woman" by Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green.
★ The main theme and many other pieces for the ''Halo'' videogame series, including Finish the Fight, the Halo 3 Fanfare
★ "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson
★ "YYZ" by Rush in F#.
★ "La Villa Stragiato" by Rush in D.
★ "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf.
★ "Rooster" by Alice in Chains
★ "Cosmik Debris" by Frank Zappa
★ "Theme from Exodus" ("This Land Is Mine") 1960-1961 by Ernest Gold.
★ "Mad World" by Gary Jules (Original version by Tears for Fears)
★ "Scarborough Fair" (English folk tune in E Dorian made popular by Simon and Garfunkel)
★ "Reptilia" by The Strokes in B
★ The Gregorian Chant played in the Temple of Time in and
★ "The Place I'll Return to Someday" in D, from the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack, played in the starting menu. The only expection is the occasional use of G#, borrowed from A harmonic minor
★ "To Victory" from the soundtrack to the feature film 300 takes its main theme from the ancient Dorian mode (modern Phrygian); this is appropriate as Sparta was part of Doric Greece.
★ "Give it to Me Baby" by Rick James
★ "Razor Blade Alley" by Madness
★ "In the Presence of Enemies" by Dream Theater
★ "Down in a Hole" by Alice in Chains
★ "Mothership Connection" by Parliament
★ "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd
★ "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)" by Iron Maiden. The riff in the beginning is in A Dorian
★ "Fêtes" by Claude Debussy
External links
★ Dorian mode in six positions for guitar at GOSK.com
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