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

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...

classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica...

perfect fifth 7 semitones). In music theory, a distinction is made between a diatonic semitone, or minor second (an interval encompassing two different staff...

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...

Western music, intervals are most commonly differences between notes of a diatonic scale. Intervals between successive notes of a scale are also known as...

"The word diatonic means 'through the tones' (i.e., through the tones of the key)" (Gehrkens, 1914, see Diatonic and chromatic § Diatonic includes the...

A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which...

commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales, it is made up of seven notes: the eighth...

any note of a musical scale. Therefore, a seven-note diatonic scale allows seven basic diatonic triads, each degree of the scale becoming the root of...

music, a septimal diatonic semitone (or major diatonic semitone) is the interval 15:14 Play. It is about 119.44 cents. The septimal diatonic semitone may be...

has a two-row diatonic, bisonoric treble and a 12-button diatonic unisonoric bass The British chromatic accordion, the favoured diatonic accordion in Scotland...

degree (V) like the harmonic minor scale. It can also be derived from the diatonic Dorian mode with a major seventh. Thus, the jazz minor scale can be represented...

of two diatonic chords. "Any chord that moves between one diatonic chord and another one nearby may be loosely termed a passing chord. A diatonic passing...

The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is...

to refer to one specific version of a 5-limit diatonic intonation, that is, Ptolemy's intense diatonic, as well to a whole class of tunings which use...

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...

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

A regular diatonic tuning is any musical scale consisting of "tones" (T) and "semitones" (S) arranged in any rotation of the sequence TTSTTTS which adds...

guitar-shaped body and a long neck in which the keys were set (covering one diatonic octave). The organistrum had a single melody string and two drone strings...

body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic. The Appalachian dulcimer has many variant names. Most often it is simply...

America), is the most widely known type of harmonica. It is a variety of diatonic harmonica, with ten holes which offer the player 19 notes (10 holes times...

scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave. Examples include: the diatonic scale; including the major scale and its modes (notably the natural minor...

(USA) William Zeitler (United States) Cristal baschet Glass diatonic harmonica, a diatonic harmonica constructed from glass Hydraulophone Royal Commission...

whole tones must be a step in the scale, so by this definition, within a diatonic scale there is only one tritone for each octave. For instance, the above-mentioned...

distorted these intervals are. The diatonic tuning in 12 tone equal temperament (12 TET) can be generalized to any regular diatonic tuning dividing the octave...

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

title of Carl Dahlhaus, translating the German harmonische Tonalität), diatonic tonality, common practice tonality, functional tonality, or just tonality...

semitones, one obtains the pitches E4–G♯4–B4. Diatonic transposition is scalar transposition within a diatonic scale (the most common kind of scale, indicated...

minor diatonic semitone is a ratio of 17:16, making it the seventeenth harmonic or partial. This is in contrast to the 5-limit major diatonic semitone...