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ecclesiastical mode

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Noun1.ecclesiastical mode - any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode
church 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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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.
Musica Scientia: Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance by Blackburn, Bonnie J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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