C$.$ What are the salient melodic features that define the scale? These are groups of two or three notes that give the scale its particular character. You can discover these by playing the scale on your keyboard and listening carefully for its strongest and most characteristic features. For example, the strongest feature of the Neapolitan group of modes is the flat second between the first and second degrees. In the Neapolitan major modes, this creates a note group of C Db E$,$ which is a very strong and recognizable feature of those modes. What do you feel is the strongest feature of the Syrian mode? There might be more than one. List these here.