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Plagal

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(a.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Plagal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/plagal.html. 1828.
 
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