• commonly classifies scales as either hemitonic or anhemitonic. Hemitonic scales contain one or more semitones, while anhemitonic scales do not contain semitones...
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  • pentatonic scales as either hemitonic or anhemitonic. Hemitonic scales contain one or more semitones and anhemitonic scales do not contain semitones. (For example...
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  • octave): the anhemitonic form (lacking semitones) is common in folk music, especially in Asian music; also known as the "black note" scale Tetratonic (4...
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    Slendro (redirect from Slendro-djawar scale)
    Play both slendro and whole tone scale - Problems playing this file? See media help. Slendro (Javanese: ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ) is one of the essential tuning systems...
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    The yo scale is a pentatonic scale used in much Japanese music including gagaku and shomyo. It is similar to the Dorian, but does not contain minor notes...
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  • scales, both six-note or hexatonic scales. A single whole-tone scale can also be thought of as a "six-tone equal temperament". The whole-tone scale has...
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  • The ritsu and ryo scales are anhemitonic pentatonic scales -- five-note scales without semitones -- used in a type of Japanese Buddhist chant called shōmyō...
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    modern-day Myanmar (Burma). Hsaing waing musicians use a hemitonic and anhemitonic scale similar to the one used by Indonesian gamelan musicians. The ensemble's...
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  • the tetratonic and pentatonic scales used are anhemitonic (that is, they do not include semitones). Tetratonic scales have also been noted among the...
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    the scale of C, D, E, G, A - an anhemitonic scale with intervals 1-1-1.5-1-1.5 (the same as the Greek pentatonic scale). Singers use a falsetto voice when...
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  • A monotonic scale is a musical scale consisting of only one note in the octave. Having a deliberate fixed note, the monotonic is still a musical form rather...
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  • composed using the pentatonic scale and minor keys. This pattern is called an anhemitonic scale or anhemitonic pentatonic scale, which was characteristic...
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  • Andalusian cadence Andalusian classical music Andamento Andean music Anhemitonic scale Answer song Anthem Antiphon Arab tone system Arabic maqam Arabic music...
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  • scales. Pentatonic and hexatonic scales are very common scales across Africa. Nonetheless, heptatonic scales can be found in abundance. Anhemitonic scales...
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  • anhembi [ca; ceb; es; eu; nl; sv; war; zh], a species of fish Anhemitonic scale, a musical scale that does not contain semitones This disambiguation page lists...
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  • sonority of the chordioid itself is anhemitonic allowing the possibility that the resultant scale be anhemitonic or at least ancohemitonic itself. Joseph...
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    seconds or major sevenths, is called hemitonic; one without semitones is anhemitonic. Harmonic semitones are an important part of major seventh chords, giving...
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    musical scale or chord containing semitones is called hemitonic; one without semitones is anhemitonic. The minor second occurs in the major scale, between...
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  • possible to hear the pitches 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of slendro as an anhemitonic pentatonic scale, do-re-mi-sol-la. However, in the pélog system pitches are simply...
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    even note values, in a syllabic style. Often it begins in a different mode — most typically, an anhemitonic pentatonic scale — and then modulates ..."...
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  • mode or scale, folksong arrangements and variations, transcriptions and homages". The cycle blends original neo‑African techniques using anhemitonic pentatonic...
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  • τόνος (tónos), τονικός (tonikós), τονή (tonḗ), τάσις (tásis), ταινία anhemitonic, atelectasis, atonic, atritonic, barytone, catatonia, catatoniac, catatonic...
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  • hemeroby, hemerochora, hemerophile hemi- half Greek ἥμισυς (hḗmisus) anhemitonic, hemiballismus, hemicryptophyte, hemicube, hemicycle, hemidesmosome,...
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  • pentatonic scale in anhemitonic form is common in spring songs known as Vesnianky. The bulk of Ukrainian folk songs melodies are based on scales identical...
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    reverting relationships; shouts before, during, and after singing anhemitonic pentatonic scales; simple rhythms and meter and, according to Nettl, antiphonal...
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    recitation of ibisigo...tuned to a pentatonic scale, usually emphasizing the minor aspects of the scale, but...not all of the strings are used in each...
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