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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of eight scales of medieval music, each distinguished by its ending note, its arrangement of pitches in intervals, and its range.

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  • noun any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode

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