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:Sunday – mode 1,
:Monday – mode 2,
:[[Tuesday]] – mode 3, :[[Wednesday]] – mode 4, :[[Thursday]] – mode plagal of the first (5), :[[Friday]] – mode plagal of the second (6), :[[Saturday]] – mode plagal of the fourth (8).
The grave mode (7) was chosen as the mode to be left out due to its heavier sound, considered least appropriate for the festal period among the eight modes. Since [[Pentecost]] falls on the Sunday when the grave mode would have been used in the normal sequence, the mode is once again skipped and the hymns of Pentecost are used. The sequence resumes the following week with plagal of the fourth.