church mode

church mode

n. Any of eight scales of medieval music, each distinguished by its ending note, its arrangement of pitches in intervals, and its range.

church mode

n (Music, other) music a less common name for mode^3a

church′ mode`

n. any of eight modal scales used in Gregorian chant and other liturgical music. [1860–65]

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church mode - any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek modeecclesiastical mode, Gregorian mode, medieval modemusical mode, mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave