In music theory a diatonic scale is a heptatonic (seven-note) scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each...

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales. The terms are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords...

The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many...

Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale, also known as the Ptolemaic sequence, justly tuned major scale, Ptolemy's tense diatonic scale, or the syntonous (or...

the tonic of a major or minor key, and each of these keys will have a diatonic scale associated with it. The circle diagram shows the number of sharps or...

piano. Most music uses subsets of the chromatic scale such as diatonic scales. While the chromatic scale is fundamental in western music theory, it is seldom...

more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale. The buttons on the bass-side keyboard are most commonly arranged in...

differences between notes of a diatonic scale. Intervals between successive notes of a scale are also known as scale steps. The smallest of these intervals...

heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave. Examples include: the diatonic scale; including the major scale and its...

interval patterns, scales are put into categories including pentatonic, diatonic, chromatic, major, minor, and others. A specific scale is defined by its...

(C) in C major). It is also called the diatonic semitone because it occurs between steps in the diatonic scale. The minor second is abbreviated m2 (or...

pentatonic scale: C, D, E, G, A. Another construction works backward: It omits two pitches from a diatonic scale. If one were to begin with a C major scale, for...

the scale. However many times an interval class occurs in a diatonic scale is the number of tones common both to the original scale and a scale transposed...

set of octave species or scales; the medieval Phrygian mode, and the modern conception of the Phrygian mode as a diatonic scale, based on the latter. The...

on a particular octave species or scale; one of the medieval church modes; or a modern musical mode or diatonic scale, related to the medieval mode. (The...

(spanning six semitones in the chromatic scale), regardless of scale degrees. According to this definition, a diatonic scale contains two tritones for each octave...

mode or the minor pentatonic scale (see other minor scales below). A natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode) is a diatonic scale that is built by starting...

scale. It can also be derived from the diatonic Dorian mode with a major seventh. Thus, the jazz minor scale can be represented by the following notation:...

classes (seven notes per octave), it is possible to tune the familiar diatonic scale using 5-limit tuning in a number of ways, all of which make most of...

Ptolemy described a 5-limit diatonic scale in his influential text on music theory Harmonics, which he called "intense diatonic". Given ratios of string...

harmonic major scale is a sound intermediate between harmonic minor and diatonic major, and partaking of both. The harmonic major scale may be used in...

behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it); one of the medieval musical modes; or—most commonly—one of the modern modal diatonic scales, corresponding...

interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale. In simple terms, within each octave, diatonic music uses only seven...

equal-tempered diatonic scale. The interval 3:1 (often called by a new name, tritave) serves as the fundamental harmonic ratio, replacing the diatonic scale's 2:1...

instance, the 7-tone diatonic scale may become the major scale once the proper degree has been chosen as tonic (e.g. the C-major scale C–D–E–F–G–A–B, in...

In diatonic set theory a generic interval is the number of scale steps between notes of a collection or scale. The largest generic interval is one less...

in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the natural minor scale. On the piano, using only the white keys, it is the scale that starts with A and...

blues scale is solmized as "la-do-re-me-mi-sol". One heptatonic, or seven-note, conception of the blues scale is as a diatonic scale (a major scale) with...

jazz scale is any musical scale used in jazz. Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from Western European classical music, including the diatonic, whole-tone...

a further distinguishment is thought unneeded, see table for Major Diatonic scale below) Roman numerals can be used to notate and analyze the harmonic...