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Etymology: hypophrygian (from Late Latin hypophrygius hypophrygian — from Greek hypophrygios, from hypo- + phrygios Phrygian, from Phrygia, ancient country in west central Asia Minor — + English -an ) + mode; translation of Greek hypophrygia harmonia
1. : a Greek mode consisting of two disjunct tetrachords represented on the white keys of the piano by a descending diatonic scale from G to G — see greek mode illustration
2. : a plagal ecclesiastical mode consisting of a tetrachord and an upper conjunct pentachord represented on the white keys of the piano by an ascending diatonic scale from B to B — see mode illustration