the diatonic scale
1Diatonic scale — Qualities Number of pitch classes 7 Maximal evenness Well formed generated collection Myhill s property Deep scale property Cardinality equals variety Struc …
2diatonic scale — di|a|ton|ic scale [ˌdaıətɔnık ˈskeıl US ta: ] n the diatonic scale a set of eight musical notes that uses a particular pattern of spaces between the notes …
3diatonic scale — noun the diatonic scale a set of eight musical notes that uses a fixed pattern of spaces between the notes …
4Diatonic scale — Diatonic Di a*ton ic (d[imac] [.a]*t[o^]n [i^]k), a. [L. diatonicus, diatonus, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? to stretch out; dia through + ? to stretch: cf. F. diatonique. See {Tone}.] (Mus.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the… …
5diatonic scale — noun a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones • Hypernyms: ↑scale, ↑musical scale • Hyponyms: ↑mode, ↑musical mode * * * diatonic scale, a standard major or minor scale of eight musical tones in the octave,… …
6major diatonic scale — n. (Mus.), The natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth notes, and whole tones between the other notes; the scale of the major mode, of which the third is major; also called {major scale}.… …
7major diatonic scale — noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th • Syn: ↑major scale • Hypernyms: ↑mode, ↑musical mode • Hyponyms: ↑C major, ↑C major scale, ↑ …
8minor diatonic scale — noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th • Syn: ↑minor scale • Hypernyms: ↑mode, ↑musical mode …
9Diatonic function — Scale degree names[1] (C major scale) …
10diatonic — c.1600, from Fr. diatonique, from L. diatonicus, from Gk. diatonikos, from diatonos extending; pertaining to the diatonic scale, from dia (see DIA (Cf. dia )) + teinein to stretch (see TENET (Cf. tenet)) …
