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When used in an abovetonic way, the darker modes are radically different in character than the brighter modes. Because the fifth and seventh scale degrees become the more consonant minor tritone and the minor sixth respectively, the flat tritone sounds more like a stable scale function. Hlanithian, in particular, is a lot like a more stable version of the Locrian mode in diatonic.

==== ~~Important~~ MODMOSes ====

==== MODMOSes ====

The most important oneirotonic MODMOS is LSLLLSLS (and ~~some of~~ its rotations), because it allows one to evoke abovetonic diatonic modes where three whole steps in a row are important (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian or Mixo) in an octatonic context, without using an equi-heptatonic scale like glacial[7]. A similar logic holds for belowtonic versions of other modes.

The most important oneirotonic MODMOS is LSLLLSLS (and its rotations), because it allows one to evoke abovetonic diatonic modes where three whole steps in a row are important (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian or Mixo) in an octatonic context, without using an equi-heptatonic scale like glacial[7]. A similar logic holds for belowtonic versions of other modes.

* LLLSLSLS: abovetonic Lydian

* LSLLLSLS: abovetonic Dorian

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 When used in an abovetonic way, the darker modes are radically different in character than the brighter modes. Because the fifth and seventh scale degrees become the more consonant minor tritone and the minor sixth respectively, the flat tritone sounds more like a stable scale function. Hlanithian, in particular, is a lot like a more stable version of the Locrian mode in diatonic.
-==== Important MODMOSes ====
+==== MODMOSes ====
-The most important oneirotonic MODMOS is LSLLLSLS (and some of its rotations), because it allows one to evoke abovetonic diatonic modes where three whole steps in a row are important (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian or Mixo) in an octatonic context, without using an equi-heptatonic scale like glacial[7]. A similar logic holds for belowtonic versions of other modes.
+The most important oneirotonic MODMOS is LSLLLSLS (and its rotations), because it allows one to evoke abovetonic diatonic modes where three whole steps in a row are important (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian or Mixo) in an octatonic context, without using an equi-heptatonic scale like glacial[7]. A similar logic holds for belowtonic versions of other modes.
 * LLLSLSLS: abovetonic Lydian
 * LSLLLSLS: abovetonic Dorian