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THE SEVEN MUSICAL MODES

the same white keys · a different root

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
music · beginners · reference · music room

Example on the piano’s white keys: C D E F G A B · filled key is the root

MAJOR AND MINOR ARE ONLY TWO OF SEVEN

C Ionian is ordinary major. A Aeolian is natural minor.

Five other ways of hearing the same white keys lie between them, from bright Lydian with a raised fourth to unstable Locrian with a lowered fifth.

A mode is therefore not just a list of notes: it is that list plus the note music returns to.

On the sheet

  • Example on the piano’s white keys: C D E F G A B · filled key is the root
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 3 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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