Locrian mode
The Locrian mode is the 7th mode of the major scale.
Its scale degrees are: 1 b2 b3 4 b5 b6 b7 8
Its intervals are: H W W H W W W
It’s a “minor” mode.
Descriptors:
- Unstable
- Exotic?
- Dark
- Intense
Chords:
- For b2:
bII,bVIIm - For b5:
Iø7
Examples
- Hutt on Fowl’s Legs (Pictures at an Exhibition) - Modest Mussorgsky (part of it)
- Mikrokosmos #63 - Bartok
- Fetes - Debussy (p.9)
- Dust to Dust - John Kirkpatrick