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For questions concerning the musical modes. These can include historical views of mode by the Greeks or the various rotations of scale collections. Questions about historical views of mode should also include the history tag.

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Can anyone confirm or discredit the term "Prime Scales" when dealing with the modern modes

I havent been able to find this term anywhere else so I question the credibility of the page but I also wonder if there is anything to this or any knowledge I can draw about modes from this statement. … Is there a (for lack of a better term) a best list of scales to create modes from? …
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What scale were the very first modes based on?

If all modes derive from a scale which scale were the very first modes derived from? … I know the modern modes are derived from the diatonic scale but if the first modes came before the major and minor scale and we got the major minor scale from the modes then what scale did the first modes
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