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hypolydian mode

[ hahy-poh-lid-ee-uhn, hip-oh-, hahy-poh-, hip-oh- ]

noun

, Music.
  1. a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypolydian mode1

1835–45; translation of Greek hypolýdios tónos; hypo-, Lydian mode

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