Modal Scales: The Ancient “Church Modes” — Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian & Ionian Modes
Back in the period between roughly 1150 AD and 1400 AD there developed scales called “modes”, or “modal scales” (actually deriving from the Greeks some thousand years before.) And since music was centered in the church during that period they came to be known as “church modes.”
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