Example sentences from the Web for mixolydian

• The Mixolydian mode is also identical with our modern major scale except for the whole tone between the 7th and 8th degrees.

  Music: An Art and a Language|Walter Raymond Spalding

• The strange beauty of the Slavsia lies in the use of the mixolydian mode, and its simple harmonisation.

  The Russian Opera|Rosa Newmarch

• The Mixolydian, which was Sappho's mode, was the mode for sentiment and passion.

  Critical & Historical Essays|Edward MacDowell

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