Like its Lydian cousin, the Mixolydian mode deviates from the major scale by just one note – the major 7th, which is lowered by a semitone to become a minor 7th. It's a crucial difference that ...

The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half a step, but only when ascending. In western music, modal music dates from before the use of scales and ...