Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms

How to say it as well as what it means: every Italian, German and French musical term of 1896, respelled phonetically for the student.

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Ecclesiastical Modes

The scales called also Ambrosian and Gregorian, in which plain song and plain chant are written.

They differ from the modern diatonic in the position of the half-tones; their position depends upon the initial note of the scale.

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