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Greek mode

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Noun1.Greek mode - any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece
musical mode, mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave


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The movement of Christianity into a Greek mode led to the great doctrinal disputes of the early Church, all of which took place in the East.
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 Greek music in modern practice, the relation of music to poetics, the conflict between theory and practice, especially with regard to the categorization of consonances: all these subjects and more exercised generations of writers, often to an exceedingly acrimonious degree.
 
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