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Aeolian mode
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English
Noun
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en 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
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:
Coordinate terms
en Ionian mode Dorian mode Phrygian mode Lydian mode Mixolydian mode Locrian mode
Translations
a musical mode
Catalan: ca mode eòlic m, ca eòlic m
French: fr mode éolien m
Irish: ga mód Aeólach m
Polish: pl skala eolska f
Portuguese: pt modo eólio m
Spanish: es modo eólico m
Further reading
en eponyms