Lydian is the name commonly given to the fifth of the eight church modes, the authentic mode on F, theoretically with B♮ but in practice more commonly with B♭ (Powers 2001). In the romantic and contemporary periods this has come to mean a diatonic scale of the natural notes from F to F, with a rising pattern of three whole tones, a semitone, two more whole tones and a final semitone—or a transposition of this pattern (Jones 1974, 42–43).
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