A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major...

beginning on the fifth step of a pentatonic scale as the V pentatonic scale. Levine points out that the V pentatonic scale works for all three chords...

often used on V7♯5 chords. Two pentatonic scales common to jazz are the major pentatonic scale and the minor pentatonic scale. They are both modes of one...

Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. In some instances, harmonic...

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

Ricker, Ramon (1999-11-27). Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation. Alfred Music. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4574-9410-9. Pentatonic scales, as used in jazz, are...

Ngũ Cung (literally ngũ cung 5 tones, "pentatonic", or also known as 5C) is a Vietnamese progressive rock band formed in 2007. They were well known for...

Pentatonix is the fourth studio album by American a cappella group Pentatonix, which was released on October 16, 2015. The release date was announced on...

note" to an existing scale, notably the flat fifth addition to the minor pentatonic scale. However, the heptatonic blues scale can be considered a major scale...

other scales with this property, such as the Dorian mode or the minor pentatonic scale (see other minor scales below). A natural minor scale (or Aeolian...

of those areas of Africa where the pentatonic scale is the norm. Kirby has shown how the demands of a pentatonic scale result in the employment of sixths...

recently posted a lesson with her about pentatonic substitutions (which you might also call modal pentatonics). "Chris Rock/Megan Thee Stallion". Saturday...

Europe. ... Among the scales which have come to the Balkans from Asia, the pentatonic is one of the most widely used in Bulgaria. Whether it came from China...

Amharic: ትዝታ; English: memory, "nostalgia" or "longing") is one of the Pentatonic scales or Qañat of the Amhara ethnic group. The term tizita is distinctly...

D,A,E} are the notes of the major pentatonic scale on C, which contains only consonant intervals. The C-pentatonic scale omits the open B of standard...

Spanish conquistador de Soto). The tuning of modern flutes is typically pentatonic. Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared...

Uwe H. Schmidt (born 27 August 1968), also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music...

with a left hand arpeggio in E major and a descending right hand E major pentatonic progression. The second quieter B section is in A major, starting with...

on an older Scottish folk song. In 1799, it was set to a traditional pentatonic tune, which has since become standard. "Auld Lang Syne" is listed as numbers...

called "Negro melodies" and Native American music, Dvořák took up the Pentatonic scale, which appears in some places in his Symphony "From the New World"...

Pentatonic scale Problems playing this file? See media help. A characteristic, unifying element throughout the quartet is the use of the pentatonic scale...

Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic...

impératrice des pagodes (Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas). These measures exhibit quartal harmony. The top line uses the pentatonic scale. Play...

and Phrygian mode are dual, etc. Or remove two diatonic notes to get pentatonic scale: Scales that are called “harmonic” contain all seven types of seventh...

Satisfaction". Although Japanese pop music changed from music based on Japanese pentatonic scale and distortional tetrachord to the more occidental music over time...

scales were common among the Plains Indians, though less common than the pentatonic scale. Amongst the Arapaho, Blackfoot, Crow, Omaha, Kiowa, Pawnee, and...

discoveries date Chinese folk music back 7000 years; it is largely based on the pentatonic scale. Han traditional weddings and funerals usually include a form of...

a state of ecstasy and connection with the Holy Spirit. The melody is pentatonic. In 2002, the US Library of Congress honored the song as one of 50 recordings...

various meters. Scales Aeolian mode Dorian mode Ionian mode Mixolydian mode Pentatonic scale Relations Cape Breton fiddling English folk music Scottish folk...

collections (diatonic scale and its pentatonic complement) in no.6 of the Eight Improvisations, with the pentatonic as foreground, and in mm. 50–51 of...