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Definition of Major mode
1. Noun. A key whose harmony is based on the major scale.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Major Mode
Literary usage of Major mode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"THE 0V IN THE major mode. 235. The chord of the seventh on the leading-tone is
called, in major, the "Ambiguous seventh," because it is more suggestive of ..."
2. The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music: Being a by Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.), Mass Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Lowell Mason (1830)
"If the Signature be formed by Sharps, the Tonic in the major mode is always the
first degree above the last Sharp of the Signature, and the Tonic in the ..."
3. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"Hence when the older composers wished to distinguish pieces written in the mode
of the Fourth from those in the major mode, by their close, they employed ..."
4. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1895)
"The Minor-major mode. There seems to be, however, some peculiar fascination about
the Greek chromatic genus, as many modern composers have evinced a desire ..."
5. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"The major mode is immediately generated by the refonance of founding bodies,
which exhibit the third major of the fundamental lound : but the minor mode ..."
6. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"Thus: C, major mode (Ex. 4) C, minor mode Ex. 62. -a? ... It appears, then, that
a minor scale is derived from the major mode of the same keynote — C minor ..."
7. A Practical Introduction to Composition; Harmony Simplified by Francis L. York (1909)
"The use of the seventh chords in the minor mode varies but little from their use
in the major mode. All the harmonies on the dominant, that is, the V7, ..."
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