English Explanatory Dictionary

Hypoaeolian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the musical plagal mode on A, which uses the diatonic octave species from E to the E an octave above, divided by the final into a second-species fourth (semitone–tone–tone) plus a first-species fifth (tone–semitone–tone–tone): E F G A + A B C D E.

Word forms

Hypoaeolian

Etymology

From hypo- + aeolian, coined by Henricus Glareanus (1547).

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