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plagal

plagal


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plagal  \Pla"gal\,  a.  [F.,  from  Gr  ?  sidewise,  slanting.]  (Mus.) 
  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. 
 
  {Plagal  cadence},  a  cadence  in  which  the  final  chord  on  the 
  tonic  is  preceded  by  the  chord  on  the  subdominant.