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Modes

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Modes 

(in the Byzantine church, echoi), in Byzantine and Roman Catholic church singing, different diatonic harmonies, each of which has its own dominant tone and final. Taken together they form a system of eight modes (octoechos).

N. D. USPENSKII
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