Aeolian

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(ē-ō'lē-ən) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of or relating to Aeolis or its people or culture.
  2. Greek Mythology. Of or relating to Aeolus.
  3. aeolian Variant of eolian.
n.
  1. One of a Hellenic people of central Greece that occupied Aeolis and Lesbos around 1100 B.C.
  2. See Aeolic (sense 1).

Name given by Glarean (Dodecachordon, 1547) to one of the additions to the eight traditional church modes, the authentic mode on A, range a-a′. It is identical with the modern minor scale in its descending melodic form. See Mode.



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