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| Oct 2, 2020 at 20:48 | comment | added | phoog | The Hypodorian mode uses the same set of pitches as the Dorian, but its range is different. The final note, that is, the home pitch, is the same, namely D, so it does not correspond to the Aeolian mode. | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 16:33 | comment | added | phoog | @Stinkfoot the aeolian mode was invented in 1547, well after the end of the middle ages. The letter names were established over 500 years earlier. | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:18 | comment | added | Stinkfoot | Understood. But that takes the edge off of this answer. | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 18:43 | history | edited | David Silberberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed typo
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| Sep 2, 2017 at 18:41 | comment | added | David Silberberg | Yes that's why I wrote "Aeolian-like" . They had many modes available, and looking at the Wikipedia page you have linked there is shown 8 tonalities, and #2 shows "Hypodorian" which is notated as a natural A minor scale... which we call Aeolian mode. They had lots of choices. It could be that they omitted tones or shifted modes as needed in performance. | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 18:14 | history | edited | David Silberberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
reduce word count, simplfy my answer
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| Aug 31, 2017 at 0:15 | comment | added | Stinkfoot | This is what I learned in a music theory course. Unfortunately, I did not ask the prof if we have any examples of medieval plain chants that use Aeolian, because it seems rather difficult to find them. See here for starters: Gregorian mode - there doesn't seem to be any particular focus on Aeolian mode at all. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 22:51 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 22:35 | history | answered | David Silberberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |