Aeolian mode

American

noun

Music.

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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Aeolian mode

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

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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