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    The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the...
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    Von Luschan's chromatic scale (VLS) is a method of classifying skin color. It is also called the von Luschan scale or von Luschan's scale. It is named...
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    Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales. The terms are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords...
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  • Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale. In simple terms...
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  • measure of the width of each scale step provides a method to classify scales. For instance, in a chromatic scale each scale step represents a semitone interval...
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    be mapped from the chromatic scale by multiplication, and vice versa. To map between the circle of fifths and the chromatic scale (in integer notation)...
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  • Wonder. Chromatic harmonicas are usually 12, 14 or 16 holes long. The 12-hole chromatic is available in 12 keys, but because the entire chromatic scale is...
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    minor scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending...
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    preferred form of a major 13 (#11) chord. Russell builds a prototype chromatic scale starting on the Lydian Tonic by stacking fifths, skipping the interval...
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  • meantone chromatic scale can proceed by stacking a sequence of 12 semitones, each of which may be either the longer diatonic ( S ) or the shorter chromatic (...
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  • musical interval is a ratio of frequencies and the equal-tempered chromatic scale divides the octave (which has a ratio of 2:1) into twelve equal parts...
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  • major scale. More broadly, a tritone is also commonly defined as any interval with a width of three whole tones (spanning six semitones in the chromatic scale)...
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  • widely used conventional names for the intervals between the notes of a chromatic scale. A perfect unison (also known as perfect prime) is an interval formed...
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    equal-tempered pitch classes making up a given equal temperament tuning's chromatic scale on a circle. If one starts on any equal-tempered pitch and repeatedly...
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    between diatonic scale steps, but instead between a scale step and a chromatic alteration of the same step. It is also called a chromatic semitone. The augmented...
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  • corresponding to the A minor scale. Several European countries, including Germany, use H instead of B (see § 12-tone chromatic scale for details). Byzantium...
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    twelve-pitch scale roughly analogous to the Western chromatic scale. The first and fifth melakarta tones, corresponding to the first and eighth chromatic tones...
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  • The scale generated by the chromatic genus is not like the modern twelve-tone chromatic scale. The modern (18th-century) well-tempered chromatic scale has...
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    composition. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded equally often in a piece of music while preventing the...
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  • Glarean), but to all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, resulting in a total of eighty-four diatonic scales. The modern musical keyboard originated as...
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    equal-temperament chromatic scale. In western music, a division into twelve intervals is commonly assumed unless it is specified otherwise. For the chromatic scale, the...
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    categorizations in dermatological and genetic research. Monk Skin Tone Scale von Luschan's chromatic scale Skin reflectance Brown Paper Bag Test D'Orazio, John; Jarrett...
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    strengths and weaknesses. It is impossible to tune the twelve-note chromatic scale so that all intervals are pure. For instance, three pure major thirds...
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  • also known, rather misleadingly, as the Chinese chromatic scale; it was only one kind of chromatic scale used in ancient Chinese music. The shi'er lü uses...
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  • International license. Fitzpatrick scale Von Luschan's chromatic scale Monk, Ellis (2023-05-04). "The Monk Skin Tone Scale". SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/pdf4c...
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    in regard to the maximally even diatonic scale—but are not maximally even with regard to the chromatic scale. (ibid, p.115) This nested quality resembles...
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    list of musical scales and modes. Degrees are relative to the major scale. Bebop scale Chord-scale system Heptatonic scale Jazz scale List of chord progressions...
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  • Some jazz scales, such as the eight-note bebop scales, add additional chromatic passing tones to the familiar seven-note diatonic scales. One important...
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    B
    note of a chromatic scale built on C. In Central Europe and Scandinavia, "B" is used to denote B-flat and the 12th note of the chromatic scale is denoted...
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    which runs through the chromatic scale). Usually, the Array mbira contains two and a half repetitions of the entire chromatic scale, arranged in a continuous...
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