Composing in Modes

How do you compose a piece of music in a mode? A 4 step process to composing a piece of modal music.
This lesson gives a worked example of composition in the Dorian Mode.
The 4 stages are:
1. Choose a mode
2. Improvise a melody
3. Add chords
4. Add instruments.

[@Roman-is4jj]

Thank you, good lesson

[@jareshchan5987]

Thank you so much for this. I am really interested in Music Theory, and I am trying to compose in D Mixolydian Mode, and this is really helpful. The product of my first phrase, I am quite happy with.

[@neylabak1]

Very useful video thank you

[@GerardoVazquezCP]

I found this to be very useful. Thank you. Do these concepts apply more to classical music?

[@foljs5858]

Awesome!

[@MusicTheoryAcademy]

Thank you - that’s really encouraging

[@sagarbantawarai672]

Thank you for the useful lesson 👍 greetings from Darjeeling india ❤️

[@MusicTheoryAcademy]

So glad you liked it!

[@BsktImp]

Does the same idea of functional harmony (tonic, pre-dominant, dominant) extend to all modes of the major scale in the same way?

[@Remour]

Modes typically don’t harmony that is functional in the way that major and minor are. Instead, they are either used as “color” over a functional progression or rely more on voice leading.

[@zaqareemalcolm]

besides maybe the tonic, not really

[@damnedbelowjudas_]

Sounds like Scarborough Fair

[@madlenstrange8424]

Interesting, to call the dorian 7th from 1 7 to 1 the folky and theoretically forbidden kadenz 😅 now I know... I always use it😅