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E Phrygian
Mode: E F G A B C D E
Major: 1 ♭2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7 1
Minor: 1 ♭2 3 4 5 6 7 1
Therefore, the Phrygian mode consists of:
root, minor second, minor third, perfect
fourth, perfect fifth, minor sixth, minor
seventh, and octave. Alternatively, it can be
written as the pattern
E Phrygian dominant
Mode: E F G♯ A B C D E
Major: 1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7 1
Minor: 1 ♭2 ♯3 4 5 6 7 1
Examples
Ancient Greek
The First Delphic Hymn, written in 128
BC by the Athenian composer Limenius,
is in the Phrygian and Hyperphrygian
tonoi, with much variation (Pöhlmann
and West 2001, 73).
The Seikilos epitaph (1st century AD) is
in the Phrygian species (diatonic genus),
in the Iastian (or low Phrygian)
transposition (Solomon 1985, 459,
461n14, 470).
Baroque
Romantic
Anton Bruckner:
Ave Regina caelorum, WAB 8
(1885–88) (Carver 2005, 76–77).
Pange lingua, WAB 33 (second
setting, 1868) (Carver 2005, 79;
Partsch 2007, 227).
Symphony no. 3, passages in the
third (scherzo) and fourth
movements (Carver 2005, 89–90).
Symphony no. 4 (third version,
1880), Finale (Carver 2005, 90–92).
Symphony no. 6, first, third
(scherzo), and fourth movements
(Carver 2005, 91–98).
Symphony no. 7, first movement
(Carver 2005, 96–97).
Symphony no. 8, first and fourth
movements (Carver 2005, 98).
Tota pulchra es, WAB 46 (1878)
(Carver 2005, 79, 81–88).
Vexilla regis, WAB 51 (1892) (Carver
2005, 79–80).
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a
Theme of Thomas Tallis (Ottaway and
Frogley 2001), based on Thomas Tallis's
1567 setting of Psalm 2, "Why fum'th in
sight".
Film music
Jazz
"Solea" by Gil Evans from Sketches of
Spain (Pelletier-Bacquaert n.d.).
See also
Phrygian dominant scale
Bhairavi, the equivalent scale (thaat) in
Hindustani music
Hanumatodi, the equivalent scale
(melakarta) in Carnatic Music
Phrygian cadence
Neapolitan chord
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Further reading
Hewitt, Michael. 2013. Musical Scales of
the World. [S.l.]: The Note Tree.
ISBN 978-0-9575470-0-1.
Tilton, Mary C. 1989. "The Influence of
Psalm Tone and Mode on the Structure
of the Phrygian Toccatas of Claudio
Merulo". Theoria 4:106–22. ISSN 0040-
5817
External links
The Phrygian mode mapped out for
guitar in all positions
Phrygian Dominant Scale - Analysis
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