neo-modaladj.
/ˌniːəʊˈməʊdl/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈmoʊd(ə)l/ Music.
Of, designating, or relating to new or modern music characterized by modalism.
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trimelic1850
panharmonic1871
polymodal1929
neo-modal1934
1934 R. Vaughan Williams National Mus. iii. 46 The Russian nationalists..evidently preferred to build their harmony from the melody downwards. We find this neo-modal harmony prevalent throughout Moussorgsky's ‘Boris’.
1943 J. N. Ashton Music in Worship xi. 114 First, there is the stately diatonic type [of hymn tune] of the eighteenth century..; second, the Victorian hymn tune; third, the revived folksong hymn tune; fourth, the neo-Gregorian and neo-modal; fifth [etc.].
1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 76 The austere nature of modal and neo-modal music.
1997 New Yorker 5 Oct. 15/2 His neo-modal bop approach may not be radically different from the other alto contenders', but his technical fluency and expressive power are.
2001 New Grove Dict. Music (Electronic ed.) at Fourth With the avoidance of triadic harmony in the 20th century, in both rigorously non-tonal and ‘neo-modal’ music, the 4th has come back into use as an important vertical interval.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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