The Mixolydian mode is a musical mode or diatonic scale. It has the same series of tones and semitones as the major scale, except the fifth (dominant) note is taken as the tonic or starting (beginning) pitch of the scale. It may also be considered a major scale with the leading tone moved down by a semitone. In music, a scale is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. ... In music theory, a diatonic scale (from the Greek diatonikos, to stretch out; also known as the heptatonia prima; set form 7-35) is a seven-note musical scale comprising five whole-tone and two half-tone steps, in which the half tones are maximally separated. ... A major second is one of three commonly occuring musical intervals that span two diatonic scale degrees; the others being the minor second, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented second, which is one semitone larger. ... A minor second is the smallest of three commonly occuring musical intervals that span two diatonic scale degrees; the others being the major second and the augmented second, which are larger by one and two semitones respectively. ... In music theory, the major scale is one of the diatonic scales. ... In music, the dominant is the fifth degree of the scale. ... The tonic is the first note of a musical scale, and in the tonal method of music composition it is extremely important. ... Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. ... In music, a scale is a set of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. ... In music theory, a leading-tone (called the leading-note outside the US) is a note or pitch which resolves or leads to a note one semitone higher or lower, being a lower and upper leading-tone, respectively. ... A minor second is the smallest of three commonly occuring musical intervals that span two diatonic scale degrees; the others being the major second and the augmented second, which are larger by one and two semitones respectively. ...

The order of tones and semitones in a Mixolydian scale is TTSTTST (T = tone; S = semitone), while the major scale is TTSTTTS. The key signature varies accordingly (it will be the same as that of the major key a fifth below). A major second is one of three commonly occuring musical intervals that span two diatonic scale degrees; the others being the minor second, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented second, which is one semitone larger. ... A semitone (also known in the USA as a half step) is a musical interval. ... This key signature – A major or F# minor – consists of three sharps placed after the clef In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the...

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Musical scale

• The G Mixolydian mode (Based on C major - on a piano it is all the white keys from one G to the next. GABCDEFG)
• The C Mixolydian mode (Based on F major. CDEFGAB♭C)
• The D Mixolydian mode (Based on G major. DEF♯GABCD)
• The E Mixolydian mode (Based on A major. EF♯G♯ABC♯DE)

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Greek Mixolydian

The idea of a Mixolydian mode comes from the music theory of ancient Greece. However, what the ancient Greeks thought of as Mixolydian was very different from the modern interpretation of the mode. The Temple to Athena, the Parthenon Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around three thousand years. ...

In Greek theory, the Mixolydian is the Hypolydian mode inverted: a descending scale of a whole tone followed by two inverted Lydian tetrachords (each being two whole tones followed by a semitone descending). This is the equivalent of playing all the 'white notes' of a piano from B to B, or B C D (E) | E F G A | B. This happens to be theoretically the same as Hyperdorian mode, but Mixolydian seems to have been the preferred name. It also seems that this Mixolydian mode was little used by the ancient Greeks, and that it was deemed unfit for any kind of music. It is the same as the modern Locrian mode. The Hypolydian mode, literally meaning below Lydian, is a musical mode or diatonic scale of ancient Greece that was based upon the Lydian tetrachord: a series of rising intervals of two whole tones followed by a semitone. ... A major second is one of three commonly occuring musical intervals that span two diatonic scale degrees; the others being the minor second, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented second, which is one semitone larger. ... Due to historical confusion, Lydian mode can refer to two very different musical modes or diatonic scales. ... In musical theory, a tetrachord is a series of four diatonic tones encompassing the interval of a perfect fourth. ... A semitone (also known in the USA as a half step) is a musical interval. ... The Locrian mode is a musical mode or diatonic scale. ...

The ancient Greek Mixolydian mode was invented by Sappho, the 7th century B.C. poet and musician, according to Anne Carson. In the introduction to her translation of Sappho's work, "If Not, Winter" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), Carson attributes this fact to Aristoxenos, who, in turn (Carson writes), was citing Plutarch in his "On Music." Ancient Greek bust. ... Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at McGill University and at the University of Michigan. ... Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. ...

Mediaeval Mixolydian and Hypomixolydian

Mediaeval European music scholars understood the Greek system of modes through the Latin works of Boethius. However, his work was misinterpreted, and the name Mixolydian came to be applied to one of the eight modes of mediaeval church music: the seventh mode. This mode does not run from B to B on white notes, as the Greek mode, but from G to G. This misinterpretation led to the current use of the term for the natural scale from G to G. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Boethius teaching his students (initial in a 1385 Italian manuscript of the Consolation of Philosophy). ...

The seventh mode of western church music is an authentic mode based on and encompassing the natural scale from G to G, with the perfect fifth (the D in a G to G scale) as the dominant, reciting note or tenor. An authentic mode is a term used to describe four of the seven church modes. ... The perfect fifth or diapente is one of three musical intervals that span five diatonic scale degrees; the others being the diminished fifth, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented fifth, which is one semitone larger. ... In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) is a repeated musical pitch around which the other pitches of the chant gravitate, or by extension, the entire melodic formula that centers on one or two such pitches. ...

Hand in hand with this mode goes the plagal eighth mode, which was termed Hypomixolydian (or under Mixolydian). This mode was based on the same scale, but used the perfect fourth (the C in a G to G scale) as the reciting note, and had a melodic range from the perfect fourth below the tonic to the perfect fifth above it. Refers to the notes of a plagal mode lying on either side of the final, beginning on the dominant (a tone of a fourth below the keynote of the authentic church mode) and then up to its key octave. ... The perfect fourth or diatessaron, abbreviated P4, is one of two musical intervals that span four diatonic scale degrees; the other being the augmented fourth, which is one semitone larger. ...

Notable songs in Mixolydian mode

• "Marquee Moon" by Television is in D mixolydian.
• "Europa and the Pirate Twins" by Thomas Dolby is in A mixolydian.
• "Change" by Tears for Fears is in C mixolydian.
• "Even Flow" by Pearl Jam is in E mixolydian.
• "I Can't Explain" by The Who, E mixolydian.
• "All Blues" by Miles Davis is a blues in G mixolydian.
• "I Feel Free" by Cream is in E mixolydian.
• "New Life" by Depeche Mode is in D mixolydian.
• "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles is in E mixolydian.
• "The Extremist" by Joe Satriani. The chorus of the song is in the mixolydian mode.
• "Transmission" by Joy Division is in D mixolydian.
• "China Cat Sunflower" by The Grateful Dead is in G mixolydian.
• "Hold Me Now" by the Thompson Twins is in D mixolydian.
• The solo/jam segment of "Simple" and "Limb By Limb" by Phish are in F mixolydian. Also, the song "NICU" by Phish contains jams and chords in Eb mixolydian mode.
• "Taxman" by The Beatles (D mixolydian)
• "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction (A mixolydian)
• "She Said She Said" by The Beatles
• "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles
• "Third Stone From the Sun" by Jimi Hendrix
• "I Will Follow" by U2 (E mixolydian)
• "The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
• "Glasgow Kiss" by John Petrucci
• "Stream" by Tim Reynolds is in D mixolydian
• "Six Feet Under Theme" by Thomas Newman
• "The Hero's Return" by Pink Floyd (D mixolydian)
• "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry, popularized by The Kingsmen (A mixolydian)
• "Clocks" by Coldplay (E flat mixolydian)
• "She Bangs The Drums" by The Stone Roses, E mixolydian
• "She Moved Through the Fair" (Traditional)
• "Shine" by Collective Soul (D flat mixolydian)
• "Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground (G mixolydian)
• "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones (E mixolydian)
• "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses (D flat mixolydian)
• "Thorn in my Pride" by the Black Crowes (B mixolydian)
• "The Visitors (Crackin' Up)" by ABBA (A mixolydian)
• "Good Love Is On The Way" by John Mayer
• "Cherub Rock" and "Hummer" by Smashing Pumpkins
• "Journey to the End of East Bay" by Rancid
• "(Lough) Erin Shore" by The Corrs (in D mixolydian, in A when used as intro to "Forgiven Not Forgotten")
• "Down Rodeo" by Rage Against the Machine (main riff in F# mixolydian)
• "Burned us Alive" by Eighteen Visions

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External links

Mixolydian mode for guitar at GOSK.com