musical mode

1. 1.

   any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

   Synonymsmode

   Broaderdiatonic scale

   Narrowerecclesiastical modeGreek modemajor scaleminor scale

Questions about musical mode

What does musical mode mean?

musical mode means "any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave".

What is another word for musical mode?

Close synonyms include mode. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical mode a common word?

musical mode is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.