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Mixolydian mode

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Mix`o`lyd´i`an mode`
1.(Mus.) The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.


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At the same time, she uses this final chapter to review the salient features of each case study and retrospectively demonstrates the logic behind the composer's choice of mode for a particular text, whether for its capacity to underline paradox--as with the Mixolydian mode of "Cruda Amarilli," for example--or to evoke anguish or mimic a troubled inwardness.
 
 
 
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