|
|
Definition of Greek mode
1. Noun. Any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greek Mode
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. ..."
Other Resources:
