music, the first of the authentic modes of the ancients. Its character is to be severe, tempered with gravity and joy; and is proper upon religious occasions, as also to be used in war. It begins D, la, sol, re. Plato admires the music of the Doric mode, and judges it proper to preserve good manners as being masculine; and on this account allows it in his commonwealth. The ancients had likewise their subdorhic or hypodoric mode, which was one of the plagal modes. Its character was to be very grave and solemn: it began with re, a fourth lower than the doric.