The mode represented by the natural diatonic scale D–D (containing a minor 3rd and minor 7th).
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Example sentencesExamples
D minor was traditionally regarded as a key both ‘obscure’ and a shade perilous, as was the Dorian mode it derived from; the piece falls, with the impetuosity of youth, into more contrarious sections than does any of the later toccatas.
His choral setting, initially in octaves, with its transposed Dorian mode on G, evolves into a kind of fantasia on the original responsory.
A chorale tune in Dorian mode is fragmented and turned in on itself.
Similarly, the Dorian mode runs from ray, and the Aeolian from lah.
The piece, in the untransposed Dorian mode, begins and ends with d-final.
Definition of Dorian mode in US English:
Dorian mode
noun
Music
The mode represented by the natural diatonic scale D–D (containing a minor 3rd and minor 7th).
〔乐〕多利亚调式
Example sentencesExamples
D minor was traditionally regarded as a key both ‘obscure’ and a shade perilous, as was the Dorian mode it derived from; the piece falls, with the impetuosity of youth, into more contrarious sections than does any of the later toccatas.
The piece, in the untransposed Dorian mode, begins and ends with d-final.
His choral setting, initially in octaves, with its transposed Dorian mode on G, evolves into a kind of fantasia on the original responsory.
A chorale tune in Dorian mode is fragmented and turned in on itself.
Similarly, the Dorian mode runs from ray, and the Aeolian from lah.