If there are just some borrowed chords from other modes in a melody, it would suffice to just select the mode that’s most prominent, but in some songs the mode of a melody just changes altogether pretty quickly (often while retaining the same key), after just 4 or 8 measures for example. Common modal changes/combinations within a single melody seem to be minor/Phrygian, minor/Dorian, Dorian/Mixolydian and minor/Mixolydian. It would be really cool if you were allowed to assign at least two modes (and perhaps also keys) to one melody, for extra musical accuracy.
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