Mode mixture

In music mode mixture is the use of pitches or chords from the parallel minor or major scale or key of a piece or section. The "modes" being the major and the minor modes.

Examples include borrowed chords such as a picardy third. Compare with secondary dominant. See diatonic functionality.

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See also: Mode mixture, Borrowed chord, Chord (music), Diatonic functionality, Major, Minor, Music, Music theory, Musical key