The Hypoaeolian mode, literally meaning "below Aeolian", is the name assigned by Henricus Glareanus in his ''Dodecachordon'' (1547) to the musical plagal

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on A, which uses the diatonic octave species from E to the E an octave above, divided by the final into a second-

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fourth (semitone–tone–tone) plus a first-species fifth (tone–semitone–tone–tone): E F G A + A B C D E. The tenor or

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is C, mediant B, the participants are the low and high Es, the conceded modulations are G and D, and the absolute initials are E, G, A, B, and C. For his plainchant examples Glarean proposed two important and well-known Gregorian melodies normally written with their finals on A: the antiphon ''Benedicta tu in mulieribus'' (traditionally designated as transposed Hypophrygian) and the gradual ''Haec dies—Justus ut palma'' (traditionally designated as transposed Hypodorian). A polyphonic example of the Hypoaeolian mode is motet 19 from Palestrina's ''Liber quartus'' of five-voice motets on the Song of Solomon.

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