Definition of Diatonic scale

1. Noun. A scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones.

Generic synonyms: Musical Scale, Scale
Specialized synonyms: Mode, Musical Mode

Definition of Diatonic scale

1. Noun. A seven note musical scale of five tones and two semitones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diatonic Scale

diathermy
diathermy machine
diatheses
diathesis
diathetic
diatom
diatomaceous
diatomaceous earth
diatomic
diatomics
diatomite
diatomites
diatomous
diatoms
diatonic
diatonic scale (current term)
diatonic scales
diatonically
diatonism
diatoric
diatreme
diatremes
diatribe
diatribes
diatribist
diatribists
diatrizoate
diatrizoate meglumine
diatrizoic acid
diatron

Literary usage of Diatonic scale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1895)
"THEORETICAL NATURE OF THE diatonic scale IN ITS ANCIENT FORM. THE facts brought forward in the last chapter to explain the origin of our present diatonic ..."

2. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"In speaking of the diatonic scale in the last two chapters, it has been assumed to be the modern major scale; this being the simplest one in construction, ..."

3. Folio (1836)
"в •• •-- The centre is the discrete and diatonic scale, —the left hand lengthened notes, represent the rising concrete intervals or tones of an octave, ..."

4. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book for the Use by Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell (1871)
"If the whole, and these fractions, are made to vibrate in order, the ear will recognize the sounds as forming the series called the gamut, or diatonic scale ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Four fifths of all his singing is done within the narrow limits of three or lour notes of the diatonic scale, and it is a question whether the utmost range ..."

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