Musicology Annotation << Back Mode and harmony in rock music: to the ratio of modality and tonality Elena А. Savitskaya Harmony and mode are important means of expression in rock music, despite their delusive simplicity and subordination to such elements of music language as sound and rhythm. In rock music, the mode approach is close to modality by its nature. On the one side, because of plagal specifics of blues scale, making grounds to many of rock forms (blues rock, hard rock), and second, of European folk music influences and Eastern music (India, Southeast Asia). On the other hand, modality sometimes points out a conscious turn to music forms of Middle-Ages and early Renaissance. Western-European functional tonality (classical and romantic) provides an «additional» modal system and being used, fi rst, in pop rock and dance music, and second, in more complex examples, infl uenced by the legacy of classical music, for example in progressive rock. Evolving of blues scales and influences of contemporary music sometimes leads to "artifi cial scale systems". The ways of developing of mode and harmony thinking in rock music shows in the article on the basis of such key stylistic directions as hard rock and progressive rock. Hard rock tends more to the stylistic core of rock music and specifi cs of blues scale. Progressive rock gives many examples of strong complication and enrichment of harmony and mode thinking in rock music, connected with the influence of classical tradition, jazz and folk music. Keywords: mode, harmony, modality, tonality, rock music, progressive rock, hard rock, blues. Contacts: E-mail: helen@inrock.ru Pp. 03-11.