Hypoaeolian mode
Hypoaeolian mode, literally meaning "below
Henricus Glareanus in his Dodecachordon (1547) to the musical plagal mode on A, which uses the diatonic octave species from E to the E an octave above, divided by the final into a second-species fourth (semitone–tone–tone) plus a first-species fifth (tone–semitone–tone–tone): E F G A + A B C D E.[1] The tenor or reciting tone is C, mediant B, the participants are the low and high Es, the conceded modulations are G and D, and the absolute initials are E, G, A, B, and C.[2]
For his plainchant examples Glarean proposed two important and well-known Gregorian melodies normally written with their finals on A: the antiphon Benedicta tu in mulieribus (traditionally designated as transposed Hypophrygian) and the gradual Haec dies—Justus ut palma (traditionally designated as transposed Hypodorian).[1]
A polyphonic example of the Hypoaeolian mode is motet 19 from
Song of Solomon.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780195170672.
- ^ Rockstro, William Smyth. 1880. "Modes, the Ecclesiastical". A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450–1880), by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign, vol. 2, edited by George Grove, 340–43. London: Macmillan and Co. p. 342.
- ^ Dickson, Douglas. 1937. "Palestrina's 'Song of Solomon'". Music & Letters 18, no. 2 (April): 150–57. p. 152