Locrian mode

noun

1

: hypodorian mode

2

: a hypothetical Renaissance church mode represented as a diatonic scale from B to B on the white keys of the piano with B as its final (see final entry 2 sense c) see church mode illustration

Word History

Etymology

Locrian entry 1

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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