Music modes are useful in music because it allows you to have more variety in the music you compose. You can learn about music modes in the following links.
Resources to learn about music modes
| Feature name: | Modes |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | 8notes.com |
| Page address: | http://www.8notes.com/articles/modes/ |
| Description: | Explains what are music modes, how are modes used, how to recognize them in a song. |
| Feature name: | Musical mode |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | Wikipedia |
| Page address: | http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_mode |
| Description: | Information on what are modes, it history, its characteristics sounds and song examples of each music mode, and advice on learning musical modes. |
| Feature name: | Modes |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | Frankie George's Music Tutor |
| Page address: | http://www.cinderzelda.com/musictutor/scales/modes.htm |
| Description: | Provides some information about musical modes. Explains how music modes are derived from another scale, and how keys and modes are different. |
| Feature name: | Music Scales - 8. Modes |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | Synthesizers, Music & Television |
| Page address: | http://tyala.freeyellow.com/4scales.htm#Mode |
| Description: | Some information on music modes. Includes a table where you can see how modes are derived from the major scale, and its corresponding semitone jumps. |
| Feature name: | A Brief Introduction to Modes in Early and Traditional European Music by Patricia Vivien Yarrow |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | Patricia Vivien Yarrow |
| Page address: | http://clem.mscd.edu/~yarrowp/MODEXh.html |
| Description: | Information on church modes and ethnic modes, including several charts where you can see the characteristics of each music mode like the name, the half steps it has, the scale, etc. |
| Feature name: | Modes and Scales |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | The Mandolin Page |
| Page address: | http://www.banjolin.supanet.com/modesandscales.htm |
| Description: | Contains information on what are music scales and what are musical modes, its origins, and two charts that have the name, the starting note and the notes that contains the modes and scales. |
| Feature name: | Definition of MODES |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | THE CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES |
| Page address: | http://www.classicalarchives.com/dict/modes.html |
| Description: | Definition of music modes, historical information, what are plagal modes, and other information about musical modes like their range and their dominant notes. |
| Feature name: | Music's Modal Scales |
| Name of the website that have this feature: | Music's Modal Scales |
| Page address: | http://members.aol.com/liberal7arts/mus/melody/modes/ |
| Description: | Historical information about music modes and a diagram called the Modal Map, where you can learn more about the music modes. |
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