hypodorian mode

[ hahy-poh-dawr-ee-uhn, -dohr-, hip-oh-, hahy-poh-, hip-oh- ]

noun

, Music.

1. a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypodorian mode¹

< Late Latin hypodōri ( us ) (< Greek hypodṓrion ) + -an; hypo-, Dorian