NOTE: This Modal Compass has gone through some generations. The latest versions (©2024 Milton Mermikides) – as featured in Gresham Lecture ‘The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes’ are here:
And ‘left-handed’ Dark to Bright (©2024 Mermikides)
Created by Skye Løfvander (musicpatterns.dk) (2015 Løvander/Mermikides).
2015: Original. A way of visualising the relationship between the modes of the major scale. When I have time I’ll expand to other modal groups (and fix the dodgy alignments).