Musical Mode

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mode (from Latin modus, "measure, standard, manner, way") is a term from Western music theory having three definitions (Powers 2001, introduction): the rhythmic relationship between long and short values in the late medieval period; in early medieval theory, interval; most commonly, a concept involving scale and melody type. In addition, from the end of the eighteenth century, the term began to be used in ethnomusicological contexts to describe pitch structures in non-European musical cultures, sometimes with doubtful compatibility (Powers 2001,
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mode (from Latin modus, "measure, standard, manner, way") is a term from Western music theory having three definitions (Powers 2001, introduction): the rhythmic relationship between long and short values in the late medieval period; in early medieval theory, interval; most commonly, a concept involving scale and melody type. In addition, from the end of the eighteenth century, the term began to be used in ethnomusicological contexts to describe pitch structures in non-European musical cultures, sometimes with doubtful compatibility (Powers 2001, §V,1).