Lydian mode

English

Noun

Lydian mode

1. (music) a mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the fourth scale degree raised by one half step, with the interval pattern:

   tone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone.

   Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F♯, G, A, B, C

   

Coordinate terms

• Ionian mode
• Dorian mode
• Phrygian mode
• Lydian mode
• Mixolydian mode
• Aeolian mode
• Locrian mode

Translations

musical mode

• French: mode lydien m, lydien (fr) m
• Russian: лиди́йский лад m (lidíjskij lad)