mixolydian mode

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[mik-suh-lid-ee-uhn, mik-] / ˈmɪk səˈlɪd i ən, ˌmɪk- /

noun

Music.

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

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Etymology

Origin of mixolydian mode

1770–80; < Greek mixolȳ́di ( os ) ( mixo-, combining form of míxis a mingling + Lȳ́dios Lydian) + -an

Example Sentences

This tune is in the Mixolydian Mode.

From Project Gutenberg

Naturally he finds many of Plato’s dictums about music absurd, for example, his call for the banning of the mixolydian mode due to its potentially damaging influence on human nature.

From New York Times

Mixolydian mode, 24. modal, chart of modes, 23-24. modulation, 51-52.

From Project Gutenberg

The Mixolydian mode is also identical with our modern major scale except for the whole tone between the 7th and 8th degrees.

From Project Gutenberg

Stannum could discern no melody, though he grasped its beginnings; double flutes gave him the modes, Dorian, Phrygian, Æolian, Lydian and Ionian; after Sappho and her Mixolydian mode, he longed for a modern accord....

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