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Definition of Plagal

Plagal
Plagal Pla"gal, a. [F., from Gr. ? sidewise, slanting.] (Mus.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave. Plagal cadence, a cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the chord on the subdominant.

Meaning of Plagal from wikipedia

- Look up plagal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plagal may refer to: Plagal cadence (in music) Plagal mode (in music) Pro-Life Alliance of ****s and...
- imperfect authentic), half, plagal, and deceptive. Typically, phrases end on authentic or half cadences, and the terms plagal and deceptive refer to motion...
- tenor of plagal mode 4—Hypophrygian—is therefore also a fourth above the finalis). In Byzantine modal theory (octoechos), the word "plagal" ("plagios")...
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- modes are the eight church modes or Gregorian modes, in which authentic and plagal forms of scales are distinguished by ambitus and tenor or reciting tone...
- Plagal Grind is a 12" EP by New Zealand band Plagal Grind, released in 1990. Containing members of This Kind of Punishment and The 3Ds, along with Alastair...
- authentic or plagal, the 2nd mode etc. In the Roman Chantbooks the modes are indicated by Roman numerals. Modes 1 and 2 are the authentic and plagal modes ending...
- Phrygian (plagal second)", is a musical mode or diatonic scale in medieval chant theory, the fourth mode of church music. This mode is the plagal counterpart...
- "musica recta," each with their authentic and plagal counterparts. Glarean's twelfth mode was the plagal version of the Ionian mode, called Hypoionian...