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The term ''Ionian mode'' fell into disuse in mediaeval Europe. Church music was based around eight and Plagal counterparts. However, Greek music theory was poorly understood, and the modes in G were called Mixolydian and Hypomixolydian (authentic and plagal modes, respectively). In as its dominant, Reciting Note or ''tenor''. The twelfth mode was the plagal version of the Ionian mode, called ''Hypionian'' (under Ionian), based on the same relative scale, but with the Major Third as its ''tenor'', and having a melodic range from a Perfect Fourth below the tonic, to a Perfect Fifth above it. As mediaeval monophonic church music was replaced by . The Ionian mode of Glarean is effectively the same as the ancient Greek Lydian Mode and the modern Major Mode . EXTERNAL LINKS
REFERENCES Jones, George Thaddeus. HarperCollins College Outline. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1974. |
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