Editing Locrian mode (section)

==Use==
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===Use in classical music===

There are brief passages in [[classical music|classical]], especially [[orchestra|orchestral]], works that have been regarded as using the Locrian mode: 
* [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] ([[Preludes, Op. 32 (Rachmaninoff)|Prelude in B&nbsp;minor, op.&nbsp;32, no.&nbsp;10]]),<ref name=Persichetti-1961/>
* [[Paul Hindemith]] (''[[Ludus Tonalis]]''),<ref name=Persichetti-1961/>
* [[Jean Sibelius]] ([[Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius)|Symphony No.&nbsp;4 in A&nbsp;minor, op.&nbsp;63]]).<ref name=Persichetti-1961>{{cite book |first=Vincent |last=Persichetti |year=1961 |title=Twentieth Century Harmony |place=New York, NY |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |page=42 }}</ref>
* [[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[Jeux]]'' has three extended passages in the Locrian mode.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Eduardo |last=Larín |date=Spring–Summer 2005 |title=&hairsp;"Waves" in Debussy's ''Jeux d'eau''&hairsp; |magazine=[[Ex Tempore (magazine)|Ex Tempore]] |volume=12 |issue=2 |url=http://www.ex-tempore.org/eduardo/eduardo.htm |via=ex-tempore.org }}</ref>
* [[Paul Hindemith]]'s "Turandot Scherzo", the theme of the second movement of ''[[Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber]]'' (1943) alternates sections in [[mixolydian mode|mixolydian]] and Locrian modes, ending in Locrian.<ref>{{cite conference |first=Gene |last=Anderson |year=1996 |title=&hairsp;''The triumph of timelessness over time in Hindemith's "Turandot Scherzo" from'' Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber |conference=College Music Symposium |volume=36 |pages=1–15, citation p&nbsp;3 }}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Britten]] used the Locrian mode for "In Freezing Winter's Night", the ninth song in ''[[A Ceremony of Carols]]''.
* Evan Bennett, an American composer, composed his Gnossienne No. 1 in F Locrian in the Locrian mode, in homage to [[Erik Satie]]’s [[Gnossiennes|Gnossienne No. 1]] (ca. 1890).<ref>{{cite web |date=6 March 2024 |title=Using Modes to Compose: Locrian |last=Mair |first=Nadia |url=https://www.nadiamair.com/post/using-modes-to-compose-locrian |website=The Composer's Life |access-date=30 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=17 February 2023 |title=Songs in the Locrian Mode |url=https://www.cmuse.org/songs-in-locrian-mode/ |website=CMUSE |access-date=28 May 2025}}</ref>

===Use in folk and popular music===
The Locrian mode is almost never used in folk or popular music:

: "In practical terms it should be said that few rock songs that use modes such as the Phrygian, Lydian, or Locrian actually maintain a harmony rigorously fixed on them. What usually happens is that the scale is harmonized in [chords with perfect] fifths and the riffs are then played [over] those [chords]."<ref name=Rooksby-2010>{{cite book |last=Rooksby |first=Rikky |year=2010 |title=Riffs: How to create and play great guitar riffs |publisher=Backbeat |isbn=9781476855486 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ftGGDwAAQBAJ&dq=Locrian+mode&pg=PT121 121] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftGGDwAAQBAJ |via=Google books }}</ref>

Among the very few instances of folk and popular music in the Locrian mode:

* The Locrian is used in [[Middle Eastern music]] as ''maqam Lami''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maqam Lami |url=https://www.maqamworld.com/en/maqam/lami.php |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=www.maqamworld.com}}</ref> In 24 TET, it is possible to create 12 TET scales, and Lami has the same intervals as Locrian.
* [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]]'s track "[[Iowa (album)|Everything Ends]]" uses an A Locrian scale with the fourth note sometimes flattened.<ref name=Rooksby-2010/>
* English folk musician [[John Kirkpatrick (folk musician)|John Kirkpatrick]]'s song "Dust to Dust" was written in the Locrian mode,<ref>{{cite web |last=Boden |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Boden |date=21 April 2012 |title="Dust to Dust" |website=A Folk Song a Day (afolksongaday.com) |url=http://www.afolksongaday.com/2012/04/21/dust-to-dust/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003032910/http://www.afolksongaday.com/2012/04/21/dust-to-dust/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2012 }}</ref> backed by his [[concertina]]. The Locrian mode is not at all traditional in English music, but was used by Kirkpatrick as a musical innovation.<ref name=EDS2000>{{cite journal |last=Kirkpatrick |first=John |author-link=John Kirkpatrick (folk musician) |date=Summer 2000 |title=The art of writing songs |journal=English Dance & Song |volume=62 |issue=2 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7fbZAAAAMAAJ |access-date=23 October 2020 |issn=0013-8231 |id={{nobr|[[EFDSS]] [http://catalogue.efdss.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber{{=}}55987 55987]}} }}</ref>
* [[Björk]]'s "[[Army of Me]]" is dominated by a heavy bassline in C Locrian.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hein |first1=Ethan |date=17 November 2015 |title=Musical simples: Army Of Me |url=https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2015/musical-simples-army-of-me/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |website=The Ethan Hein Blog}}</ref>
* The song "Gliese 710" from [[King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard]]'s 2022 album ''[[Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava]]'' is in Locrian, following the album's theme of basing each song around one of the Greek modes.<ref>{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Carys |date=7 September 2022 |title=King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard announce three albums dropping in October, share "Ice&nbsp;V": Stream |type=music review |website=Consequence (consequence.net) |url=https://consequence.net/2022/09/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-three-new-albums/ |access-date=2022-10-13 |language=en-US}}</ref>