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Ionian mode

American

noun

Music.

an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C.

Etymology

Origin of Ionian mode

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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The Lydian mode would be every white key starting from F to an octave above F. Every white key from C to C is the far more mundane and ordinary Ionian mode.

From Los Angeles Times

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