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church mode

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church mode
n.
Any of eight scales of medieval music, each distinguished by its ending note, its arrangement of pitches in intervals, and its range.
church mode
n
(Music, other) Music a less common name for mode [3a]
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Noun1.church mode - any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode
ecclesiastical mode, Gregorian mode, medieval mode
musical mode, mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave


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