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musical mode

Plato believed that a change in the musical modes of the state would cause a wide-scale social revolution.

Both the caña and polo share the same musical mode.

Jewish liturgical music is characterized by a set of musical modes.

It gives an idea about the raga (musical mode) in which the song is going to be sung.

The idea was never to let the audience get too settled into any musical mode.

He sings in a variety of musical modes on the songs.

For example, he has this to say about the sometimes arcane concept of musical mode:

Nambi was also involved in setting musical modes for Tevaram.

The term dastgāh has often been compared to the musical mode in Western musicology.

He conducts the services using ten maqamat or musical modes.