Crossword-Solution: MIXOLYDIAN
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECZAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MIXOLYDIAN (5)
The Mixolydian mode is also identical with our modern major scale except for the _whole_ tone between the 7th and 8th degrees.
The strange beauty of the _Slavsia_ lies in the use of the mixolydian mode, and its simple harmonisation.
The Hymn to Athena in the first act; the Anacreontic song for Montanus in the second act (in the Mixolydian), with its characteristic figures of accompaniment for flute; the Dance of the Mænads; and a graceful Spinning-song for female voices in the third act, are the most successful numbers in the work.
Concerning this, the opera librettist, Giuol Strozzi, writes complimentarily if not clearly, that the music "depicted grief in the Mixolydian tone, the happy discovery of Sappho; and the _Dies Iræ_ and the well intoned _De Profundis_, by their novelty and mastery, awakened in the hearers the greatest wonder." From this time onward, Monteverde composed often in the new style.
Ours is probably an early dance tune, originally in the Mixolydian Mode, which has undergone modification in oral transmission.