Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Ionian Mode

A species of church music in the key of C major, in imitation of the ancient Greek mode so called.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Ionic Accomplishments
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