Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See under mode.

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  • adjective designating a mode in music, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek μιξο-Λυδιος ("half-Lydian"), from μιξο- (from base of μιγνυναι ("to mix") + Λυδιος ("Lydia"), an ancient country in Asia Minor, which gave its name to another Greek mode).

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Examples

  • We overhere grew up with the blues and we heard it in everything we did, even the church music that turned us on the most wasn't those dried up old fig mixolydian and lydian modes from the white church--snoring songs, I call them, but rather the powerful swinging blues-developed gospel hymns of the swinging black choirs and the lead vocalists those choirs carried with them.

    Empirical Study #1(WITH PORTIONS LOST FOREVER) The Daily Growler 2006

  • Googlewhacking is a dangerously seductive anticyclonic mixolydian way to waste time at work.

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Anthropomorphic nipperkin 2005

  • We walked on, visiting a booth of dancing dwarfs, a concert in the mixolydian mode for double-flute, aulos and kithara; a diviner who foretold the winner of the stade race by casting pebbles (the morrow proved him wrong), and even, briefly, a lawyer's exposition of how he could win his client's case when justice, law, public opinion and all the evidence were on the other side.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres 'altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightness of his almightiness.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Hypophrygian, [G: c (e ') b'] dominant, A. Hypolydian, [G: c '(f') c ''] dominant, A. Hypo-mixolydian, [G: d '(g') d ''] dominant, C.

    Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884

  • Sing into the iPhone over a metronomic beat, and the software figures out what key you're in, what mode is being used (major, minor, mixolydian, etc.), whether song sections are being repeated, and what chord progressions might work well underneath the melody line.

    Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2010

  • Sing into the iPhone over a metronomic beat, and the software figures out what key you're in, what mode is being used (major, minor, mixolydian, etc.), whether song sections are being repeated, and what chord progressions might work well underneath the melody line.

    Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2010

  • Sing into the iPhone over a metronomic beat, and the software figures out what key you're in, what mode is being used (major, minor, mixolydian, etc.), whether song sections are being repeated, and what chord progressions might work well underneath the melody line.

    Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2010

  • Instead of a soloist intent on wowing listeners with his mastery of the mixolydian scales,

    KITV.com - Local New 2009

  • Instead of a soloist intent on wowing listeners with his mastery of the mixolydian scales,

    KSBW.com - Local News 2009

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  • "It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian ..." Joyce, Ulysses, 15

    January 1, 2008