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gregorian mode

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church mode

 
–noun Music.
a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
Also called Gregorian mode.

Origin:
1860–65
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gregorian mode

noun
any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode [syn: ecclesiastical mode] 
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