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Definition of Major diatonic scale
1. Noun. A diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th.
Generic synonyms: Mode, Musical Mode
Specialized synonyms: C Major, C Major Scale, Scale Of C Major
Lexicographical Neighbors of Major Diatonic Scale
Literary usage of Major diatonic scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Musical World (1860)
"As the subject of our present consideration is the major diatonic scale, we must
take the sounds of the major primary chords, the individual sounds of which ..."
2. A Treatise on Harmony: With Exercises by Joseph Humfrey Anger, Henry Clough-Leighter (1919)
"... CHAPTER I THE major diatonic scale 1. A musical sound is the result of regular
vibrations in the air; irregular vibrations result in what is commonly ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The diatonic series, as thus corrected, is as follows :— major diatonic scale ля
corrected for Modern /farm<my. lili з es The several intervals, ..."
4. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"All that the pupils have as yet learned has been in the major diatonic scale of
Do,'but they have also been taught that every musical passage is in some ..."
5. The Philosophy of Music: A Comparative Investigation Into the Principles of by Halbert Hains Britan (1911)
"Thus the major diatonic scale may be regarded as eight sounds selected out of
the thirteen ... But it is true, nevertheless, that the major diatonic scale ..."
6. A theory of harmony founded on the tempered scale, with questions and by Sir John Stainer (1871)
"The two Leading-Notes in the major diatonic scale.— The force of one to keep a
Progression in the Key, that of the other to lead out of the Key. ..."
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