Phrygian mode
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English
Noun
Phrygian mode (plural Phrygian modes)
- (music) a mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the second scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern:
- semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - 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