Lydian mode  

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And ever, against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs.

--"L'Allegro" by Milton

Softly sweet in Lydian measure,
Soon he sooth'd the soul to pleasure.

--Alexander's Feast" by Dryden

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The modern Lydian mode is a seven-tone musical scale formed from a rising pattern of pitches comprising three whole tones, a semitone, two more whole tones, and a final semitone.

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