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The Church Modes

Essential Question: What are modes and how do we construct each one?. The Church Modes. Extended thinking: Who formalized the Greek scheme of modes?. What is a musical (church) mode?. A series of pitches in a defined order Modes came before major and minor scales (modern)

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The Church Modes

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  1. Essential Question: What are modes and how do we construct each one? The Church Modes Extended thinking: Who formalized the Greek scheme of modes?

  2. What is a musical (church) mode? • A series of pitches in a defined order • Modes came before major and minor scales (modern) • Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do (a major scale) • Each mode can be thought of as starting on a degree of the modern major scale

  3. The lines and spaces of the treble clef Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge FACE

  4. The 7 Church Modes Ionian- Modern C Major Scale Dorian- Starting on D Phrygian- Starting on E Lydian- Starting on F Mixolydian- Starting on G Aeolian- Starting on A Locrian- Starting on B

  5. Homework for 9/19 Fill-out worksheet and write your own Gregorian chant An example... Review: IDPL MAL (modes in order) EGBDF and FACE (treble clef)

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