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description: A house built without a foundation — beautiful, and always about to fall.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Locrian
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> *A house built without a foundation — beautiful, and always about to fall.*
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## The Mode
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Locrian is the seventh mode of the major scale, beginning on its seventh degree. Built on C it draws from D♭ major, and it is the odd one out among the seven: it carries both a flattened second and, uniquely, a flattened fifth. That diminished fifth robs the mode of a stable tonic triad, which is why Locrian is often called the theoretical or unstable mode.
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The result is a sound with no solid ground beneath it. Where every other diatonic mode rests on a consonant fifth that anchors the root, Locrian’s tritone tonic refuses to settle, leaving the whole scale in a state of permanent suspension and unease. It is the darkest and most restless of the seven.
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## Structure
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| Attribute | Value |
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| Interval formula | H W W H W W W |
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| Notes (from C) | C D♭ E♭ F G♭ A♭ B♭ |
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| Characteristic tone | The ♭2nd and ♭5th — unstable, diminished |
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| Parent major scale | D♭ major |
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## Character
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Two features conspire to unmoor Locrian. The flattened second presses against the root with the same brooding tension as Phrygian, and the flattened fifth dissolves the very interval that gives a tonic its stability. Together they produce a diminished, dissonant, vertiginous quality — the ear keeps searching for a resting point that never comes. This is dissonance as a home base rather than a passing colour, which is exactly why the mode is so rarely used as a tonal centre.
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## In Practice
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Locrian appears mostly in fragments — over half-diminished chords in jazz, in fleeting passing harmony, and in the more extreme reaches of metal and experimental music that court instability on purpose. Sustained Locrian pieces are vanishingly rare; more often it lends a moment of dread or collapse before the music finds firmer ground.
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## Related
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- [Phrygian](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/modes/phrygian)
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- [Aeolian](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/modes/aeolian)
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- [Scales & Modes](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes)
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- [Musical Keys](/knowledge/music/musical-keys)
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