Hypoaeolian mode

noun

Hy·​po·​aeolian mode

: a Renaissance church mode represented as a scale from E to E on the white keys of the piano with C as its tenor (see tenor entry 1 sense 2a)and A as its final (see final entry 2 sense c) see church mode illustration

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin hypoaeolius hypoaeolian (from—assumed—Greek hypoaiolios, from Greek hypo- + aiolios Aeolian, from Aiolis Aeolis, ancient country in Asia Minor) + English -an

First Known Use

1760, in the meaning defined above

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