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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, a scale reckoned downward from a given tone by the same intervals as those of the ordinary upward major scale, the half-steps occurring between tones three and four and tones seven and eight, thus: Such a scale is strongly minor, being practically the same as the Dorian mode of ancient Greek music. See undertone, 4.

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