Phrygian mode

The Phrygian mode (pronounced /ˈfrɪdʒiən/) can refer to three different musical modes: the ancient Greek tonos or harmonia, sometimes called Phrygian, formed on a particular set of octave species or scales; the medieval Phrygian mode, and the modern conception of the Phrygian mode as a diatonic scale, based on the latter.

The , written in 128 BC by the Athenian composer Limenius, is in the Phrygian and Hyperphrygian tonoi, with much variation.^[8]

First Delphic Hymn

The (1st century AD) is in the Phrygian species (diatonic genus), in the Iastian (or low Phrygian) transposition.^[9]

Seikilos epitaph

the equivalent scale (thaat) in Hindustani music

Bhairavi

the main scale (dastgah) in Iranian music

Shoor

the equivalent scale (melakarta) in Carnatic music

Hanumatodi

the equivalent scale (makam) in Turkish makam music

Kürdî

Neapolitan chord

Phrygian cadence

Carver, Anthony F. (February 2005). "Bruckner and the Phrygian Mode". . 86 (1): 74–99. doi:10.1093/ml/gci004.

Music & Letters

Partsch, Erich Wolfgang (2007). "Anton Bruckners phrygisches Pange lingua (WAB 33)". Singende Kirche. 54 (4): 227–229. 0037-5721.

ISSN

Pesic, Peter (2005). . Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. 11 (1).

"Earthly Music and Cosmic Harmony: Johannes Kepler's Interest in Practical Music, Especially Orlando di Lasso"

Pollack, Howard (Summer 2000). "Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius, and the Making of an American Romantic". . 84 (2): 175–205. doi:10.1093/musqtl/84.2.175.

The Musical Quarterly

; Tyrrell, John, eds. (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780195170672.

Sadie, Stanley

Solomon, Jon (Summer 1984). "Towards a History of Tonoi". . 3 (3): 242–251. doi:10.2307/763814. JSTOR 763814.

The Journal of Musicology

Solomon, Jon (Winter 1986). "The Seikilos Inscription: A Theoretical Analysis". . 107 (4): 455–479. doi:10.2307/295097. JSTOR 295097.

American Journal of Philology

Footnotes

Sources

Franklin, Don O. 1996. "Vom alten zum neuen Adam: Phrygischer Kirchenton und moderne Tonalität in J. S. Bachs Kantate 38". In Von Luther zu Bach: Bericht über die Tagung 22.–25. September 1996 in Eisenach, edited by Renate Steiger, 129–144. Internationalen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für theologische Bachforschung (1996): Eisenach. Sinzig: Studio-Verlag. 3-89564-056-5.

ISBN

Gombosi, Otto. 1951. "Key, Mode, Species". 4, no. 1:20–26. JSTOR 830117 (Subscription access) doi:10.1525/jams.1951.4.1.03a00020

Journal of the American Musicological Society

Hewitt, Michael. 2013. Musical Scales of the World. [s.l.]: The Note Tree. 978-0-9575470-0-1.

ISBN

Novack, Saul. 1977. "The Significance of the Phrygian Mode in the History of Tonality". Miscellanea Musicologica 9:82–177. 0076-9355 OCLC 1758333

ISSN

Tilton, Mary C. 1989. "The Influence of Psalm Tone and Mode on the Structure of the Phrygian Toccatas of Claudio Merulo". Theoria 4:106–122. 0040-5817