Character notes of each Major Mode

GuyBoden

Modal Harmony.

If you don't already know, the below picture shows the character notes of each Major mode.

If a chord includes this character note of the mode, it emphasizes the mode being used.

nikharrison

Is this from Peter Vogl's scale book?

I only ask because I've seen this kind of thing in his book, even though the Dorian mode doesn't have a raised 6th in it at all. It has a b3 and a b7...

viz

Depends whether you’re comparing it against major or natural minor. 

nikharrison

viz said:

Depends whether you’re comparing it against major or natural minor. 

Yes.

Looks like intervals are looked upon relative to Major, but characteristics relative to Aeolian.

viz

nikharrison said:

viz said:

Depends whether you’re comparing it against major or natural minor. 

Yes.

Looks like intervals are looked upon relative to Major, but characteristics relative to Aeolian.

Well, my flow chart is:

major or minor?

If major, is it ionian or not?
if not, is the 4 raised or the 7 lowered, or both? Lydian; mixolydian; lydian dominant

if minor, is it aeolian or not?
if not, is the 6 raised, or the 2nd lowered, or both (dorian, phrygian or dorian b2), or is the 7th raised (harmonic minor) or the 6th and 7th raised (melodic minor (ascending))

GuyBoden

nikharrison said:

Is this from Peter Vogl's scale book?

I only ask because I've seen this kind of thing in his book, even though the Dorian mode doesn't have a raised 6th in it at all. It has a b3 and a b7...

It's from the Harmony Work book 1, by Barry Nettles, Berklee College.

It's referring to modal non-functional harmony not functional harmony.

In Modal harmony, when the character note(s) of a mode are present in a chord, they help define what mode is the key.

GuyBoden

viz said:

nikharrison said:

viz said:

Depends whether you’re comparing it against major or natural minor. 

Yes.

Looks like intervals are looked upon relative to Major, but characteristics relative to Aeolian.

Well, my flow chart is:

major or minor?

If major, is it ionian or not?
if not, is the 4 raised or the 7 lowered, or both? Lydian; mixolydian; lydian dominant

if minor, is it aeolian or not?
if not, is the 6 raised, or the 2nd lowered, or both (dorian, phrygian or dorian b2), or is the 7th raised (harmonic minor) or the 6th and 7th raised (melodic minor (ascending))

Yes, we are all conditioned to hear in terms of Major and minor, but only since the last 200(ish) years.