Dorian mode

American  

noun

Music.

1. an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D.

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Example Sentences

We ended with Riley, who used the Dorian mode in “Sun Rings” for out-of-this-world access.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2020

In this case the inspiration for the music wasn’t the wine itself, but rather a Parthenon-style building in the vineyard, which led the composer to use the Greek Dorian mode in his composition.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 9, 2012

This is an example of Dorian mode in “Scarborough Fair,” an English folk song.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

There was little or no classification of tones, and the entire twenty-four letters were applied in regular order to the diatonic series of the Dorian mode.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

SOCRATES: Then according to your statement, you and I, Laches, are not attuned to the Dorian mode, which is a harmony of words and deeds; for our deeds are not in accordance with our words.

From Laches by Jowett, Benjamin