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Diatonic   /dˌaɪətˈɑnɪk/   Listen
Diatonic

adjective
1.
Based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals.
2.
Based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music.



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"Diatonic" Quotes from Famous Books



... aerial motion, if our atmosphere embraced our sun, and extended throughout space, we should perhaps hear in the ambient the fundamental chord, resolvable into the diatonic scale—as we look upon the beam of white which the prism decomposes into the solar spectrum, and in the ghostly watches of the night, we might recognize the 'music of the spheres' as the planets rushed around their airy orbits, with ...
— The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


Words linked to "Diatonic" :   tonal, major diatonic scale, minor diatonic scale, music, chromatic, diatonic scale


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