"Phrygian mode" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Phrygian modes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Phrygian mode (plural Phrygian modes)
  1. (music) A mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the second scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern: Coordinate_terms: Aeolian mode, Dorian mode, Ionian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode, Mixolydian mode Translations (mode): modo frigio [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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