Mode , in Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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MODE , in music in music. 1 A grouping or...the pretonal modes of Western music, this note is called the final...smaller steps (in Western music, whole and half steps) which...terms drawn from ancient Greek music theory, were grouped in pairs...Middle Ages and during the Renaissance certain other modes were adopted...