A ditonic scale is a musical scale or mode with two notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and...
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hemitonic in scale.) Hemitonic pentatonic scales are also called "ditonic scales", because the largest interval in them is the ditone (e.g., in the scale C–E–F–G–B–C...
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"black note" scale Tetratonic (4 notes), tritonic (3 notes), and ditonic (2 notes): generally limited to prehistoric ("primitive") music Scales may also be...
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used. The most common were tritonic (3-note) scales at 47%, while the third-most was ditonic (two-note) scales at 17%. Tetratonic music was noted as common...
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Genus (music) (redirect from Ptolemy’s ditonic diatonic)
interval equivalent to two tones. It yields the English words ditone and ditonic (see Pythagorean comma), but it is quite distinct from διάτονος. The Byzantine...
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The chord-scale system is a method of matching, from a list of possible chords, a list of possible scales. The system has been widely used since the 1970s...
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so called "neutral scale", used in gamelan music and some folk musical styles of Angola) and larger scales are hemitonic (ditonic or better) and tritonic...
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Ditonic scale Divertimento Divisi Division viol DJ mix Dodeka music notation Dominant Dominant seventh sharp ninth chord Dorian mode Dorian ♭2 scale Dotted...
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Pythagorean comma (redirect from Ditonic comma)
comma (531441:524288) on C In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras...
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fifths C-G, G-D, D-A, A-E, E-B, and B-F♯ are each 1⁄6 of a Pythagorean (ditonic) comma narrower than just. The exact and approximate numerical sizes of...
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