Word: mixolydian
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ONCE UPON a time there was a genre known as musical comedy--quick-paced, sly and witty, warm, didactic but shallow. The songs were pleasant and melodious, you could count on a few up-tunes and some spangled bimbos, never in any more dissonant a musical mode than mixolydian. The script--"book" it was called by those in the know--grappled with Important Issues, like racial prejudice (Finnian's Rainbow) other cultures (The King and I), utopia found and lost (Camelot) and the Nazi rise to power (Cabaret). It was good, workmanlike entertainment, done with zeal and finesse, an enjoyable...
...Agora (1906-09), Agudath Kimah (1920-23), Anti-Wine Society (1837-43), Aureus Ramus (1825), Lemonade Club (1844-58), Chitty Pleading Club (1874-75), Deipnophatoi (1815), Eranetic Club (1829), Free Wool Club (1889-91), Friendly Fire Society (1833), Hard Cyder Club (1755), Mixolydian Quintette Club (1875-76), Monks of the Flagon (1848-56), De Schwatgenide Brudorschaft (1885-86), Society to Discourage Perpetration of Crimes (1793), Star Chamber (1873-74), West End Crowd (1864). Ydel Cruth (1860), Wicht Club...
...musical society, the Mixolydian Quintette Club, has been organized for the purpose of playing sacred music. The repertoire of the society consists already of Mendelssohn's 42d Psalm, Farmer's Mass, Haydn's III., VII., and IX. Masses, and other standard works...
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