Editing Dorian mode (section)

==Modern Dorian mode==
The modern Dorian mode (also called "Russian minor" by [[Mily Balakirev|Balakirev]],<ref>[[Richard Taruskin]], "From Subject to Style: Stravinsky and the Painters", in ''Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist'', edited by Jann Pasler, 16–38 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1986): 33. {{ISBN|0-520-05403-2}}.</ref>) by contrast, is a strictly [[diatonic scale]] corresponding to the white keys of the piano from D to D (shown below)

:<score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
  \clef treble \time 7/4
  d4^\markup { Modern D Dorian mode } e f g a b c d2
} }
</score>

or any transposition of its interval pattern, which has the ascending pattern of [[whole step]]s and [[half step]]s as follows:

: whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half, whole

Thus, the Dorian mode is a [[symmetric scale]], since the pattern of whole and half steps is the same ascending or descending.

The modern Dorian mode can also be thought of as a scale with a minor third and [[Minor seventh|seventh]], a [[major second]] and [[Major sixth|sixth]], and a [[perfect fourth]] and [[Perfect fifth|fifth]], notated relative to the major scale as:

: 1, 2, {{music|b}}3, 4, 5, 6, {{music|b}}7, 8

It may be considered an "excerpt" of a [[major scale]] played from the [[pitch (music)|pitch]] a [[whole tone]] above the major scale's [[Tonic (music)|tonic]], i.e., a major scale played from its second [[scale degree]] up to its second degree again. The resulting scale is, however, ''[[Minor scale|minor]]'' in quality, because, as the D becomes the new tonal centre, the F a minor third above the D becomes the new [[mediant]], or [[Degree (music)|third degree]]. Thus, when a [[triad (music)|triad]] is built upon the tonic, it is a [[minor triad]].

The modern Dorian mode is equivalent to the [[natural minor scale]] (or the [[Aeolian mode]]) but with a major sixth. The modern Dorian mode resembles the [[Phrygian mode#Greek Phrygian mode|Greek Phrygian ''harmonia'']] in the diatonic genus.

<!-- This melodic minor scale covers the ascending portion of it. -->
It is also equivalent to the ascending [[melodic minor scale]] with a [[minor seventh]].