Coltrane's version differs significantly from the song as originally conceived, using modal patterns and being much darker and more frenzied in feel.

Instead it merges the modal patterns and call-and-response of Senegalese songs with Arabic pop arrangements for a 13-piece orchestra.

As fingers flew in modal patterns and voices rose in urgent dialogue, the music danced across expanses of history and culture.

During Bernard's liturgical reform the tonary still served as an important tool and its modal patterns formed the basis of the corrections made by Cistercian cantors.

An ordo (plural ordines) is a phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.

It often establishes the modal pattern.

One song was paced by drums and modal patterns played on a marimba; the second shifted to a rumba beat and brought in the horns.

The themes follow modal patterns, often in unison, and the lack of harmonic invention - or indeed interest in it - creates paper-thin surfaces.

The eight church tones were called after the names of octave species, which were not connected with modal patterns and plainchant theory in earlier times.

The complex modal patterns circled again and again, carrying both the lessons in the songs and the spirit of age-old traditions.