MODE

Mode

In the theory of Western music, mode generally refers to a type of scale, coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviours. This use, still the most common in recent years, reflects a tradition dating to the Middle Ages, itself inspired by the theory of ancient Greek music. The word encompasses several additional meanings, however. Authors from the ninth century until the early eighteenth century sometimes employed the Latin modus for interval. In the theory of late-medieval mensural polyphony, modus is a rhythmic relationship between long and short values or a pattern made from them . Since the end of the eighteenth century, the term ...

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mode

Noun

  1. One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale
  2. A particular means of accomplishing something.
    What was the mode of entry?
  3. The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  4. A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  5. One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
    In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Style or fashion.


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