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Phrygian mode
noun
, Music.
- an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Phrygian mode1
First recorded in 1800–10
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Example Sentences
But the 'Phrygian Mode' in practical music must have been a tolerably definite musical form.
From Project Gutenberg
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