Locrian

The Locrians were an ancient Greek tribe in Greece. The Locrians spoke the Locrian dialect, a Doric-Northwest dialect, which indicates that they may have been relatives of the Dorians. They inhabited the ancient region of Locris in Central Greece....

The Locrian mode is either a musical mode or simply a diatonic scale. Although the term occurs in several classical authors on music theory, including Cleonides and Athenaeus , there is no warrant for the modern usage of Locrian as equivalent to Glarean's Hyperaeolian mode, in either classical,...

In music, the major Locrian scale, also called the Locrian major scale, is the scale obtained by sharpening the second and third degrees of the Locrian mode. With a tonic of C, it consists of the notes C D E F G♭ A♭ B♭. It can be described as a whole tone scale extending from G♭ to E, with F...

The half diminished scale is a musical scale more commonly known as "Locrian 2", name which avoids confusion with the diminished scales and the half-diminished seventh chord . It may be considered Mode VI, the sixth mode, of the ascending melodic minor scale...

Locrian is an experimental music/drone rock band from Chicago, Illinois, United States formed in late 2005.-History:Locrian was formed in late 2005 by André Foisy and Terence Hannum, who had previously played together in Unlucky Atlas. Foisy is originally from Northern New York, while Hannum is...