Editing Locrian mode (section)

===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>