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Adjective: plagal  pley-gul
  1. 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
    "The point of greatest stability in plagal tunes is not the mid-cadence"

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