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Church modes

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Church´ modes`
1.(Mus.) The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.


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Memorization of these pieces may be difficult for a student because Huang writes in various Chinese keys, such as Gong and Shang, along with the traditional church modes.
Mode" and "modality" were the preferred terms with which to analyze a repertory with ties to medieval church modes.
The sixteenth-century Magnificat, with its idiosyncratic ties to the Catholic liturgy's declining but persistent medieval system of eight church modes, reveals tonal relationships particularly in the Magnificats of Tone Seven - that help illuminate the faceted polyphonic application of the still incompletely understood modal system.
 
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