gregorian tone

gregorian tone
noun
Usage: usually capitalized G
Etymology: Gregorian (II)
1. : one of the nine tunes with variants to which the psalms are sung in Gregorian music, eight of them being written in the eight most common ecclesiastical modes

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Gregorian tone or Gregorian mode,
any one of the eight Gregorian scales used in singing the Psalms.

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