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Diatonic

adjective

Based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals.

Based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music.

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"Diatonic" Quotes from Famous Books

... affiliation between sanguine, or blood color, and middle C, led thereto by scientific reasons entirely unassociated with symbolism. He has omitted orange-yellow and violet-purple; this makes the scale conform more exactly with the diatonic scale of two tetra-chords; it also gives a greater range of purples, a color indispensable to the artist. Moreover, in the scale as it stands, each color is exactly opposite its ...

— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... prelude, it is a strong, simple melody, made on the intervals of the diatonic scale, square-cut in rhythm, firm and dignified, and, like the mastersingers, complacent and a trifle pompous in stride. The three melodies which are presented in opposition to the spirit represented ...

— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... equivalent of the Rondo in instrumental music, the performer was left perfectly free to use such embellishments as set forth his own gifts to the greatest advantage. Some singers excelled in bold and rapid flights of scales, chromatic and diatonic; others, in the neat and clean-cut execution of involved traits or figures. It must be remembered, that the great singers of the past were perfectly competent to add these ornaments themselves, as they possessed a ...

— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... phonographed tunes of some of the Red Indians of North America. Here a reference must be made to the scale of the Scotch bagpipe, a highly artificial product, without historical materials available to assist in unravelling its development. It comprises a whole diatonic series of notes, and ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones—when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now—perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious ...

— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives