• in musique mesurée Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes?

Facts on topics related to Musical mode

Musical scale

• enharmonic scales are the third genus of musical scales?
• the bells of Altgeld Hall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign play a short daily concert at 12:50pm despite not having a complete musical scale?

Musical notation

• Gongche notation was once popular in transcribing the music of China before the modern jianpu and standard notation?
• the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation?

Harmony

• Prussian military bandmaster Franz von Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea?

Melody

• Tori Amos got the melody for her song "1000 Oceans" from a "dark angel" singing to her in a dream?
• a bass run is an instrumental break in which the main vocal or melody line rests and the bass instruments and line are given the forefront?
• the chorus melody of "Be Alright", a track from DecembeRadio's 2008 album Satisfied, was written by bassist/vocalist Josh Reedy while showering?
• the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist?