"mode" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The early Byzantine church developed a system of eight musical modes (called the octoechos), which mediaeval music scholars related to the ancient Greek modes.
- Hammel on modes,"We are not quite sure what a Greek mode really was."
- The Romans may have tuned their instruments to Greek modes.
- For incidental music to a New York production of Ben-Hur in 1899, he based his composition on Greek modes.
- Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, that eventually became the basis for Western religious and classical music.
- Specifically, the pair pioneered the use of Greek modes for teaching chord-scales, a technique which has become the standard for teaching music theory worldwide.
- Although the names are of Greek origin, the tone sequences are different from Greek modes with similar names.
- Confusingly, the modern Dorian mode is the same as the Greek Phrygian mode.
- It would be incorrect though to call it modal, for the Arabic system is more complex than that of the Greek modes.
- Food played an important part in the Greek mode of thought.
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