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Plagal Scales or Modes

In the ecclesiastical system, those scales beginning a fourth below the authentic scales, but ending on the keynotes of their related authentic scales. They are distinguished by the prefix hypo [Gr., ὑπo, below], as Dorian (authentic) D-D, ending on D; hypo-Dorian (plagal) A-A, ending on D.