Aeolian mode

English

Noun

Aeolian mode (uncountable)

1. (music) a mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale, with the interval pattern:

   tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone

   Starting on the note A, this produces a scale with the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A

   

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:

     And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]

Coordinate terms

• Ionian mode
• Dorian mode
• Phrygian mode
• Lydian mode
• Mixolydian mode
• Aeolian mode
• Locrian mode

Translations

a musical mode

• Catalan: mode eòlic m, eòlic (ca) m
• French: mode éolien m
• Irish: mód Aeólach m
• Portuguese: modo eólio m
• Spanish: modo eólico m