Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ecclesiastical_mode

1 sense of ecclesiastical mode

Sense 1
ecclesiastical mode, Gregorian mode, church mode, medieval mode -- (any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode)
       => mode, musical mode -- (any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave)