Hypoaeolian mode
noun
Hy·po·aeolian mode
: a Renaissance church mode represented as a scale from E to E on the white keys of the piano with C as its tenor (see tenor entry 1 sense 2a)and A as its final (see final entry 2 sense c) see church mode illustration
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin hypoaeolius hypoaeolian (from—assumed—Greek hypoaiolios, from Greek hypo- + aiolios Aeolian, from Aiolis Aeolis, ancient country in Asia Minor) + English -an
First Known Use
1760, in the meaning defined above