Crossword-Solution: PLAGAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plagal | 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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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLAGAL | anagram | GALPAL |
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| Musical range | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLAGAL (5)
These enharmonic passages recur to satiety, and the abuse of the plagal cadence deprives it of its religious solemnity.
Plagal-cadence: a closing progression of chords in which the sub-dominant or chord on the fourth degree of the scale precedes the tonic or chord on the first degree of the scale.
The name arises from the modes used in early church music called Plagal Modes, which were a transposition of the authentic modes beginning on the fourth degree of the authentic modes.
Thus the melody itself was said to be either authentic or plagal, according to whether it had one or two tonics.
The old rules, making plagal motion of the different voices preferable to parallel motion, and contrary motion preferable to either, still hold good in our works on theory; so also in regard to the rules forbidding consecutive fifths and octaves, leaving the question of the fourth in doubt.
Quotes with PLAGAL (1)
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history — the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out i…
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Appears in: Crossroads.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2005).