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Did the Church โStealโ the Mode Names? (new 1-min video)
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How did the modes got their names? โ This short animated video reveals the ancient origins of the modal scale names - who named them and how they evolved through time. Today's modes are nothing like the original ones (which were more theoretical and tuning-focused), but medieval church scholars kept the same names because... well, they sounded cool? More likely, they simply lacked alternatives. By then, the original Greek modal frameworks had fallen out of common use - so they were "free to repurpose" and too good to resist, it all sounded just scholarly enough to stick. Borrowing from the prestigious Greek philosophy added weight and legitimacy to the new church modes, and the new music system was born... I guess history just has a way of naming things for good. ๐๏ธ Watch the 1-minute video here: โ 
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