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Aeolian mode
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- minor scale
Aeolian mode, in Western music, the melodic mode with a pitch series corresponding to that of the natural minor scale. The Aeolian mode was named and described by the Swiss humanist Henricus Glareanus in his music treatise Dodecachordon (1547). In that work Glareanus expanded the standing system of eight church modes—which had prevailed since the 9th century—to accommodate the increasingly common major and minor modes as well as the growing importance of harmony as a determinant of melodic motion. He added four new modes to the corpus: the Aeolian, the Hypoaeolian, the Ionian, and the Hypoionian. Both the Aeolian mode ...(100 of 151 words)