mixolydian mode

mixolydian mode
/mik"seuh lid"ee euhn, mik'-/, Music.
an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
[1770-80; < Gk mixolýdi(os) (mixo-, comb. form of míxis a mingling + Lýdios Lydian) + -AN]

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      in music, seventh of the eight medieval church modes. See church mode.

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