Mixolydian
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editFrom Ancient Greek μιξο-Λυδιος (mixo-Ludios, “half-Lydian”), from μιξο- (mixo-) (from base of μιγνυναι (mignunai, “to mix”)) + Λυδιος (Ludios, “Lydia (an ancient country in Asia Minor)”); named in reference to Lydian (another Greek mode).
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- (music) Designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant.
- Johann Jakob Froberger's piece Canzona V in G is in the mixolydian mode.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 474:
- It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres' altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightiness of his almightiness.
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editdesignating a mode in music having (in the C scale) final G and D dominant
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edit- Mixolydian mode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia