The mechanical counterparts of these properties are, respectively, mass, stiffness and damping.

Ethiopian music uses a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.

Thus, Burundi had to export its goods using a route that stretched for 4500 km, crossing several borders and modal changes, to use the port of Durban in South Africa.

Examples of features of group emotions include the level of variability of emotions among members (i.e., affective diversity), the proportion of positive or negative emotions, and the modal (i.e., most common) emotion present in a group.

Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, together with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.

He is probably best known for his controversial modal realist stance that (i) possible worlds exist, (ii) every possible world is a concrete entity, (iii) any possible world is causally and spatiotemporally isolated from any other possible world, and (iv) our world is among the possible worlds.