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Aeolian mode

noun

Music.

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

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This is an example of Aeolian mode in the American folk song “Aeolian Lullaby.”

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The tune is in the Aeolian Mode.-288- LXIII.

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The Aeolian Mode, mainly identical with our customary minor scale, has the characteristic whole tone between the 7th and 8th degrees.

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