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Mixolydian
Mixolydian
English
Adjective
Mixolydian (not comparable)
- (music) designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
- It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian
- Johann Jakob Froberger's piece Canzona V in G is in the mixolydian mode.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
Translations
designating a mode in music having final G and D dominant
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