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What is a plagal in music?
: a musical cadence in which subdominant harmony resolves to the tonic (see tonic entry 2 sense 2) — called also amen cadence.
What is the meaning of plagal?
1 of a church mode : having the keynote on the fourth scale step — compare authentic sense 4a. 2 of a cadence : progressing from the subdominant chord to the tonic — compare authentic sense 4b.
Why is it called plagal?
A plagal mode (from Greek πλάγιος 'oblique, sideways, athwart') has a range that includes the octave from the fourth below the final to the fifth above. ... In Byzantine modal theory (octoechos), the word "plagal" ("plagios") refers to the four lower-lying echoi, or modes.
What is Elequate?
1 obsolete : to cause to flow freely : liquefy. 2a : liquate, smelt. b : to part by liquefaction.
