Aeolian mode

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Aeolian mode (uncountable)

  1. (music) a mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale, with the interval pattern:
    tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone
    Starting on the note A, this produces a scale with the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A
    {a b c'd'e'f'g'a'2}
    • 1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:
      And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]

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