Mus. Obs. ‘Used to designate the note la, and especially the key of la.’ Littré.
1760. Stiles, Anc. Grk. Mus., in Phil. Trans., LI. 772. He … affirming … that the Dorian mode answered exactly to our A-mi-la with a minor third, and the Phrygian to our A-mi-la with a major third.
