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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
