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| | Diatonic scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Technically speaking, diatonic scales are obtained from a chain of six successive fifths in some version of meantone temperament, and resulting in two tetrachords separated by intervals of a whole tone. | | | In music theory, a diatonic scale (from the Greek diatonikos, "to stretch out"; also known as the heptatonia prima; set form 7-35) is a seven-note musical scale comprising five whole-tone and two half-tone steps, in which the half tones are maximally separated. | | | Diatonic Scale on Eric Weisstein's Treasure trove of Music |
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| | Scale (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Microtonal scales are also used in traditional Indian Raga music, which has a variety of modes which are used not only as modes or scales but also as defining elements of the song, or raga. | | | In music, a scale is a set of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. | | | Scales in traditional Western music generally consist of seven notes and repeat at the octave. |
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| | The Diatonic Scales |
| | The seven modes of the diatonic scale (Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian and Locrian) were (with the exception of the Locrian) widely used in the pretonal Western music of the Middle Ages. | | | The modes of the diatonic scale are most commonly found in medieval music and folk music, so using them can suggest a somewhat "ancient" quality. | | | The diatonic scale is therefore an ideal resource for both melodic and harmonic music - it has lots of consonant triads, it has few dissonant intervals, and it is melodically smooth with just two consecutive-step sizes. |
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| | scale - Columbia Encyclopedia article about scale |
| | Although the diatonic scale is basically heptatonic (seven-noted), music that is in a major or minor tonality usually employs the remaining five tones of the chromatic scale as auxiliary or ornamental tones. | | | scale, in music, any series of tones arranged in a step-by-step rising or falling order of pitch pitch, in music, the position of a tone in the musical scale, today designated by a letter name and determined by the frequency of vibration of the source of the tone. | | | A scale defines the interval interval, in music, the difference in pitch between two tones. |
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| | Diatonic Scale |
| | Among the many styles of music, a scale using seven tones (notes) is the basis of Western music. | | | A scale is a method of organizing sound into music and can be based on any number of notes. | | | The same eight notes used in the Western musical scale are heard in the divided and undivided string. |
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http://www.timestar.org/diatonic.htm
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| | Bass Scales In Tablature - Bass Guitar - Scales And Modes |
| | All of these scales are widely used for all forms of music. | | | The half tone and whole tone scales are only common among extremely odd playing situations.You may hear alot of these on soundtracks to horror movies, or studio outakes for scary movies, as well as your favorite songs by your favorite artist or group. | | | They have scince been changed over the course of time, to what we as bass guitarist and musicians know today as the 7 modes of the major scale. |
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http://www.guitartabbooks.com/freelessons/bscalesmodes.htm
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| | The Musical Scale |
| | Also, since the Western musical scale is based on harmonics at 2x, 3x, and 5x a given frequency, ignoring any harmonic which includes a higher prime number, those notes which do not relate to the Western musical scale, instead of being depicted imperfectly, are shown as having no representation through the use of rests. | | | The equal-tempered scale to which most instruments are tuned is an attempt to approximate the frequencies of the notes derived from the integer harmonics. | | | The degrees of the scale, which are the notes considered relative to the tonic of the musical piece being played, or within the key of that piece, as opposed to the notes referred to by their absolute frequencies, are named as follows: |
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http://www.hypermaths.org/quadibloc/other/musint.htm
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| | Music Theory |
| | A scale is simply a progression of notes in ascending or descending order, so arranged for theoretical purposes, vocal or instrumental exercise, or as part of a composition. | | | Debussy and other composers have featured whole-tone scales extensively in their music, both harmonically and melodically. | | | The semitone is the smallest interval used in western style music. |
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| | Musical Scales |
| | The scale beginning with E, and intervals u - - - u - -, was the Doric mode, followed by the Hypolydian, Ionic, Eolic and Mixolydian modes. | | | We see that a musical scale is a collection of pitches, arranged in a monotonic sequence of frequency, that are usually harmonic and pleasant when sounded sequentially or simultaneously in the performance of music. | | | A musical scale is a collection of notes from which as many of these harmonic intervals can be realized as possible. |
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| | ELEMENTS: Harmony-diatonicism |
| | This means that the same order of intervallic relationships found in the original scale are shifted so that the order of half-steps and whole-steps begins at 5 instead of 1. | | | This means that the same order of intervallic relationships found in the original scale are shifted so that the order of half-steps and whole-steps begins at 4 instead of 1. | | | A diatonic scale is perceived as major when the scale-steps have the following template of intervallic relationships: |
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| | LECTURE 15--February 21, 2001 (Monday) |
| | Review of music notation, based on handout; the diatonic scale based on C4 consists of the white keys only; this can be considered only as a guide since the piano keyboard is tuned to the well-tempered scale which we have not yet discussed. | | | In Gregorian chants (Plainsong) there are a number of modes based on starting on different keys of the diatonic scale. | | | , the frequency ratios of successive notes in the diatonic scale, and the interval between successive notes in units of cents. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys1240/phys1240_sp01/lecture15.html
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| | F Diatonic Tuning for 12 String Pedal Steel |
| | I especially enjoy the sound of Bach's music when it is played in meantone on the F diatonic pedal steel. | | | Using this tuning, I'm never more than one fret away from a full diatonic scale in any key signature at any fret. | | | -Ab -Eb I use the a fairly standard E9th tuning for most country, swing, blues and rock, but the F Diatonic is my choice whenever I have to read music. |
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| | Harp On! Music Theory II |
| | As discussed in Music Theory I, the Major Scale can be described as follows, where (--) is a wholetone interval and (-) is a halftone interval. | | | Blues Music Theory Tip: When improvising with the blues scale there are a number of accidentals that fall between the blues scale that can be used to harmonise with the tune. | | | There are countless scales in the world of music. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/music/HarpOn/theory2.html
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| | The Bohlen-Pierce Site: BP Scale Structures |
| | Now let's assume that the traditional major scale of the Western musical system developed from the desire to accommodate the major triad (be it as an entity or in parts), in as many varieties as possible, within the framework of the octave. | | | Returning to the basic harmonic framework of the BP scale, we recognize that we need to insert a single tone into each of the two large gaps only, in order to arrive at a diatonic scale, containing semitone and whole tone steps. | | | This is the basic harmonic framework of the BP scale. |
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| | Music Theory and Orchestration from MusicArrangers.com |
| | The third interval of the diatonic scale is S. Start with the third note (C#). | | | The sixth interval of the diatonic scale is T. Start with the sixth note (F#). | | | The second interval of the diatonic scale is T. Start with the second note (B). |
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| | Neanderthal Flute |
| | Suffice it to say these scales are overwhelmingly parallel to the acoustic "overtone series" and several other acoustic properties | | | One of the infrequent exceptions to this mental penchant is the historical 5 and 7-note musical scales. | | | When we look at history, such a scale would be, and it seems, was felt, to be "out of tune" in most human musical cultures. |
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| | CHAPTER TWO: SOUND, LIGHT AND GEOMETRY |
| | We can see the Diatonic scale on a piano as the white keys, providing that the beginning note in our octave is a C. The piano has black keys as well, and when they are included, there are a total of thirteen notes in the Octave. | | | These thirteen notes are known as the Chromatic scale, and most of the world’s music will consist only of notes that fit somewhere within this scale; therefore almost all possible songs can be played on a piano. | | | You can play a song on the white keys of the piano and it will always sound like music, regardless of what notes you play. |
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| | Minor Keys Class |
| | If we return to the modes of a diatonic scale mentioned in Fundamentals Class, and play each one, we find that the Aeolian has that minor quality felt with the minor triad. | | | Cm in a Melodic Minor scale would only have a Eb in amongst its diatonic brothers. | | | It is rarely use in pop or classical music, but has a Spanish style sound to it. |
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http://www.wolftracksmusic.com/music/harm/minorClass.htm
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| | Diatonic Scales Guitar Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com |
| | Actually, leads based on the diatonic scales go really well with deep songs. | | | Try out a lead in this scale which starts with a repetitive pattern twice similar to the tune of ur song. | | | Or a diatonic with a pentatonic, or with a harmonic Minor even, make up cool sounds and interesting solos! |
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http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/music_theory/diatonic_scales.html
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| | BAIN: A Pythagorean Tuning of the Diatonic Scale |
| | If one assumes as Pythagoreans did, that pitches related by a frequency ratio of 2:1 may be considered equivalent, then the process of creating a scale might best be described as filling in the musical space spanned by the octave with smaller basic intervals. | | | ne way to tune a 7-note diatonic scale is to use only the basic intervals whose frequency ratios are | | | Today we refer to these intervals as the perfect |
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| | Vision Music's "Scale Safari" |
| | A lesson in "stacking" perfect fourth intervals, based on the C dorian scale. | | | Unusual variations on the minor pentatonic scale, in the spirit of saxophone legends "King" Curtis, Junior Walker, Tom Scott, and others. | | | One of the most popular scales for aspiring improvisers, plus four more common xmodes/scales extracted from this form. |
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| | Bohlen-Pierce diatonic modes |
| | The first diatonic BP modes that Heinz Bohlen evaluated and propagated were much influenced by the leading scales of the Western system. | | | His fundamental modes are 7-step scales, consequently named Major and Minor. | | | These would be worth trying out if one wishes to get these ratios of 11 and 13 into music. |
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| | Hollywood, the Diatonic Scale and SETI |
| | I was amused at the film's dialog when a linguist directs a musician to play intervals from the diatonic musical scale in order to communicate with the extraterrestrials. | | | Nonetheless, I think we take ourselves too seriously when we imagine that alien beings might adopt modes of communication based on our conception and perception of the Universe. | | | I wondered why aliens would communicate using a human derived musical system. |
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| | Whacky Music, Inc. Tubes |
| | This 8-note set allows more songs to be played and is generally preferred over the pentatonic scale by most music educators and people more familiar with music. | | | Consisting of 7 notes, the bass diatonic tubes add a whole new dimension to the sound and musical possibilities. | | | It forms a different pentatonic scale which has its own pleasing sound and combines with our Diatonic Scale to create a full chromatic octave of 12 notes. |
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http://www.boomwhackers.com/tubes.htm
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| | What is Music? Links |
| | Among other things this site contains ideas about lattice representations of musical scales and intervals between notes, similar to what is described in the chapters on vector theory and the 2D/3D theory in my book. | | | Software for defining musical scales based on lattices. | | | My Harmonic Heptagon would appear to be an example of what Monzo calls a comma pump. |
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| | Theory page 3 |
| | Many times there are scale changes within the song. | | | We have seen that in the scales, thanks to the rule which indicates if it is diatonic (every note must have a different name), that all the notes are present in the succession of the sounds. | | | This note has the same sound as the natural D note, but in the scale it assumes the name of C##. |
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| | Diatonic Harmony |
| | The following chart lists all the diatonic chords in all 12 keys. | | | To see all of the notes and scale degrees in these chords, go play around with the Music Calculators | | | So...If the chord built on the first scale degree of the major scale consists of the 1, 2, 5 and 7th scale degrees then one can infer that the chord built on the second scale degree is made up of the 2, 4, 6 and 8th etc. etc. |
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http://www.surfingpharaoh.com/music_ed/diatonic.htm
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| | Re: How old is the diatonic scale? |
| | Fink concludes that the diatonic scale > is thus a natural scale and not artifical, ie that it is naturally > pleasing rather than based on theoretical considerations. | | | > I would agree with that only until we find all the instruments made at the time and find out that they are all were based on the diatonic scale. | | | Subject: Re: How old is the diatonic scale? |
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| | Quiz #2 for Diatonic Scale |
| | 1) In the Pythagorean Diatonic Scale, if the frequency for C3 is 261 Hertz, then what is the frequency of the note D3? | | | 5) In the Pythagorean Diatonic Scale, if the frequency for C3 is 261 Hertz, then what is the frequency of the note A4? | | | 6) In the Pythagorean Diatonic Scale, if the frequency for C3 is 261 Hertz, then what is the frequency of the note B4? |
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| | RhymeZone |
| | noun: a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones | | | Search for diatonic scale at other dictionaries: OneLook, Answers.com, Merriam-Webster | | | Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more: |
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