What are the modes in Western music? Describe at least one mode in Western music.

Aeolian, Locrian, Mixolydian, Phyrgian, Lydian, Dorian, Ionian.

Dorian mode in C begins and ends on D.

In this chapter, we'll look at the major scale within a larger context, seeing it as one of actually 6 possible scales that have traditionally been used in the creation of Western music. [ The major scale that instrumenatalists are univerally taught to first learn on their instrument is a subset of the 6 modes, and it is to these modes that we now turn our attention.