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Definition of Ecclesiastical mode
1. Noun. Any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecclesiastical Mode
Literary usage of Ecclesiastical mode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: Partly by Henry John Stephen, James Stephen (1883)
"I. As to the ecclesiastical mode of registration. This system is said be coeval
with the Protestant Church; having been first established by Cromwell, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"The Eleventh ecclesiastical mode : a tonality which can scarcely be said to have
any real existence—as it is universally discarded, in practice, ..."
3. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"... names without expressly mentioning that they refer to an ecclesiastical mode.
It would be really better to forget them altogether. ..."
4. Harmony and Analysis by Kenneth McPherson Bradley (1908)
"In the three major forms of the ecclesiastical mode, the essential characteristics
are: First, the Ionian and the Lydian have large sevenths, ..."
5. Publications by English Historical Society (1848)
"1 Our author here appears to have exchanged the civil or ecclesiastical mode of
computation for the historical, commencing the year on the 1st of January. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"Moreover in works of this time the universality of the harmonic Cadence as
distinguished from the cadences of the ecclesiastical mode» becomes apparent. ..."
7. The Psychology of Dress by Frank Alvah Parsons (1920)
"In all countries where Christianity had been accepted and during the positive
sway of the feudal system there was a pronounced ecclesiastical mode always ..."
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