A musical mode or melody. Obsolete. rare.

(Without a or plural) Quality of sound.

Applied to the medieval ecclesiastical modes (the eight tunes): see mode, n. 1a (b), and cf. tone, n. 3b. Obsolete.

Music. A scheme or system specifying the disposition in a scale of the constituent notes of a melody or harmony; spec. each of a conventionally…

Music. More fully rhythmic mode. In early Western music: any of several patterns of notes in ternary rhythm, as measured in longs and breves (now…