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

   

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
• Irish: mód Aeólach m
• Portuguese: modo eólio m
• Spanish: modo eólico m