Aeolian mode

noun

, Music.

1. an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A.

Example Sentences

This is an example of Aeolian mode in the American folk song “Aeolian Lullaby.”

From Literature

The tune is in the Aeolian Mode.-288- LXIII.

From Project Gutenberg

The Aeolian Mode, mainly identical with our customary minor scale, has the characteristic whole tone between the 7th and 8th degrees.

From Project Gutenberg