单词 | church mode |
释义 | > as lemmaschurch mode church mode n. Music any of eight scalar and melodic categories used for the classification and composition of plainsong and constituting the tonal basis of much early music (see mode n. 1c); also called ecclesiastical mode. ΚΠ 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 6 This term [sc. authentico] is applied by the Italians to four of the church modes or tones in music, which rise a fourth above their dominants, which are always fifths above their finals. 1873 W. K. Sullivan in E. O'Curry On Manners & Customs Anc. Irish I. p. dlxxix The series of church modes..furnished a set of scales proceeding from every note of the diatonic scale, all differing in almost everything from one another. 1920 W. R. Spalding Music xviii. 288 Much of his [sc. Debussy's] original tone coloring is derived from the old church modes such as the Lydian, the Dorian and the Phrygian. 2007 T. A. Lynn Introd. Musicianship iii. 99 The major and minor scales replaced the modes and remained prominent until the late nineteenth century, when composers rediscovered the early church modes. < as lemmas |
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