Mixolydian mode
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English
Noun
- (music) a mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the seventh scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern:
- tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone.
- Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B♭, C.
Coordinate terms
- Ionian mode
- Dorian mode
- Phrygian mode
- Lydian mode
- Mixolydian mode
- Aeolian mode
- Locrian mode