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Ecclesiastical modes

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(Mus.) the church modes, or the scales anciently used.

See also: Ecclesiastical



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The endless debates about tuning systems, the problem of the mathematical basis of music, the question of Greek modes and their relation to ecclesiastical modes, the attempt to revive the fabled effects of
Musica Scientia: Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance by Blackburn, Bonnie J. / Renaissance Quarterly
In the last twenty years, Dutch laymen, priests, and theologians alike have tended to regard ecclesiastical modes as part of the social revolution that has made Holland a cockpit of domestic strife.
Utrecht; confronting by National Review
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