diatonic in English

adjective
1
(of a scale, interval, etc.) involving only notes proper to the prevailing key without chromatic alteration.
Harmonically, the added notes are needed to provide a major or minor triad for each note of the diatonic scale.

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1. Find any tabs for diatonic, Chromatic and tremolo harmonica

2. 6 Substitution notes may be diatonic or chromatic.

3. The Aeolian Mode is the sixth mode of the Diatonic Major Scale

4. While the diatonic scale was still used, the chromatic scale became "widely employed."

5. Chromatic Accordions are button Accordions, like diatonic models, but they use a chromatic scale

6. A FREE Educational and Fun App to learn to play the Diatonic Button Accordion

7. A further invisible distinction is the type: there are both chromatic and diatonic Accordions.

8. Appoggiaturas occurring in a melody which ascends or descends by diatonic degrees are moderately short (Ex

9. Martin Accordions in Lafayette, Louisiana builds some of the world's finest hand made cajun diatonic Accordions

10. What does Atonality mean? The absence of a tonal center and of harmonies derived from a diatonic scale corresponding

11. Note that the last note in this bar is a non-diatonic note over the B maj9 chord.

12. 11 rows  · Atonal music is music with no key-centeredness, or diatonic scale associated with it, and no …

13. The Bandoneon is a large, accordionlike instrument capable of playing diatonic music, or music using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale

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15. Featuring a variety of choral textures, including chant and diatonic harmonies, as well as intricate modern arrangements and musical devices like organum, canon, inversion and imitation, this collection provides Antiphons for Sundays, solemnities and feasts throughout the year.

16. Aristoxenus and the Auletic viewpoint 151 ‘Pythagorean’ orthodoxy 158 Thrasyllus 159 Nicomachus, ‘Timaeus Locrus’ and Boethius 160 Minor Sources 166 Superparticularity 169 Archytas 171 Eratosthenes 182 Didymus 187 Ptolemy 194 6 Going beyond Ptolemy? 217 The soft diatonic and tense chromatic semitones 217 Modality 219 Focal notes 219