Definition of Greek mode

1. Noun. Any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece.

Generic synonyms: Mode, Musical Mode

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greek Mode

Greek calends
Greek capital
Greek chorus
Greek clover
Greek cross
Greek deity
Greek drachma
Greek fire
Greek fret
Greek fries
Greek house
Greek houses
Greek key
Greek letter
Greek letters
Greek mode (current term)
Greek monetary unit
Greek mythology
Greek number
Greek numbers
Greek numeral
Greek numerals
Greek partridge
Greek salad
Greek salads
Greek system
Greek valerian
Greek yogurt
Greeker
Greekess

Literary usage of Greek mode

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"In the Gregorian system the mode which begin« with the lowest note then in use wns the second« the plagal mode beginning with A. The first Greek mode was ..."

2. A Visit to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon (1852)
"The great Monastery of Meteora—The Church—Ugliness of the Portraits of Greek Saints—Greek mode of Washing the Hands— A Monastic Supper—Morning View from the ..."

3. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon (1881)
"The great Monastery of Meteora—The Church—Ugliness of the Portraits of Greek Saints—Greek mode of Washing the Hands—A Monastic Supper—Morning View from the ..."

4. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"Name applied to the Greek mode: , ' „ » , + a — g — f^e — d — с ^ В—A — indicates a whole step; ^ a half forming a tetrachord, or group of four tones; ..."

5. Aural Harmony by Franklin Whitman Robinson (1918)
"This Greek mode consisted of seven diatonic degrees, beginning on A and ending ... This Greek mode is identical with our A minor scale without the seventh ..."

6. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1801)
"... on the epi- grums : in reply to which arguments, Mr. Dyer quotes Gruter and Gronovius and Mont- faucon, to prove, not the Greek mode of pro- ..."

7. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1890)
"But the Greek mode of thought is as correct as our own, and more graphic. ... This Greek mode of speech, and St. Paul's teaching in Romans ii. ..."

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