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mixolydian, a. Mus.|mɪksəʊˈlɪdɪən|
[f. Gr. µιξο-λύδιος half-Lydian: see mixo- and Lydian.]
The designation of (a) the highest in pitch of the modes in ancient Greek music; (b) the fourth of the ‘authentic’ ecclesiastical modes, having G for its ‘final’ and D for its dominant.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. x. (Arb.) 98 The Eolien, Mi[x]olidien and Ionien. 1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Words, Mixolidian tune, that is to say, lamentable and pitifull: meet for Tragoedies. 1760Stiles in Phil. Trans. LI. 709 In the Mixolydian species, the diazeuctic tone was the first interval, reckoning from acute to grave. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. 390 Mixolydian mode. 1842W. F. Donkin in Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Ant. s.v. Music (Greek), The seven species of the Octachord..were anciently..denoted by the names Mixolydian, Lydian [etc.],..the Mixolydian being the highest, and the Hypodorian the lowest. 1867Macfarren Harmony i. 14 The fourth mode Ambrose selected is the Hyper-Lydian, sometimes called Myxo-Lydian. 1893H. E. Wooldridge Chappell's O. Eng. Pop. Mus. I. p. xi, Ecclesiastical Scale of G. 7th or Mixolydian Mode. |