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Dorian mode

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noun

Music.
  1. an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D.


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We ended with Riley, who used the Dorian mode in “Sun Rings” for out-of-this-world access.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2020

In this case the inspiration for the music wasn’t the wine itself, but rather a Parthenon-style building in the vineyard, which led the composer to use the Greek Dorian mode in his composition.

From BusinessWeek Jan. 9, 2012

This is an example of Dorian mode in “Scarborough Fair,” an English folk song.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Thus in the Dorian mode the tonic would be RE, in the Phrygian, MI, etc.

From Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens

The two middle tetrachords, constituting the original Dorian mode, were called disjunct, the two outer ones which overlap the middle ones were called conjunct or synemmenon tetrachords.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell

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