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MUSICAL MODE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

Synonyms:

mode; musical mode

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("musical mode" is a kind of...):

diatonic scale (a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical mode"):

church mode; ecclesiastical mode; Gregorian mode; medieval mode (any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode)

Greek mode (any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece)

major diatonic scale; major scale (a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th)

minor diatonic scale; minor scale (a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th)

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