An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. However, the term most often refers to the ancohemitonic symmetric scale composed of alternating whole...

including the diatonic, whole-tone, octatonic (or diminished), and the modes of the ascending melodic minor. All of these scales were commonly used by late nineteenth...

minor, harmonic major scale, harmonic minor scale, Hungarian major scale, Romanian major scale, and the so-called octatonic scale. Hemitonia is also quantified...

octatonic scale. However, Tymoczko states that this was problematic in that it does not resolve all instances of multiple interactions between scales...

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...

scale Octatonic (8 notes per octave): used in jazz and modern classical music Heptatonic (7 notes per octave): the most common modern Western scale Hexatonic...

microtonal. He often uses modes of limited transposition, particularly the octatonic scale, saying: "I like to know what I can't do and then work inside that...

Compositions using the octatonic scale: Radiohead "Just" (1995). Jonny Greenwood plays a series of OCT02 scales on the guitar during the intro (0:06-0:16)...

octatonic scale and set the pleading text. The minor second motif in the chorus is continued throughout the movement. The use of the octatonic scale and...

The Hungarian major scale is a heptatonic scale subset of the octatonic scale with an omitted ♭2 degree. It has the following interval structure in semitones:...

F♯, create a diminished seventh chord (0, 3, 6, 9) and exhaust the octatonic scale (9 1 4, 3 7 t, 0 4 7, and 6 t 1 = 0 1 3 4 6 7 9 t), "and suggests that...

Non-equal-tempered, the scale could approximately be notated as: E-F-G-A♭-B♭-C♭ [hexatonic] (see: enharmonic), the first six notes of an octatonic scale on E. It may...

The Romanian major scale is a heptatonic scale subset of the octatonic scale with an omitted ♭3 degree. It is noted for its flattened 2nd and sharpened...

and octatonic scales, the registral distribution of the harmony, and the derivation of the complete octatonic scale. According to Reise, all scales (including...

or supertonic, giving twelve possibilities. The octatonic scale (or diminished scale), a symmetric scale, may be conceived of as two interlocking diminished...

one mode. Play The second mode, also called the octatonic, diminished, whole-half, or half-whole scale, is divided into four groups of three notes each...

notes"). This leads to scales with translational symmetry which include the octatonic scale (also known as the symmetric diminished scale; its mirror image...

is also applied to the octatonic scale. This interval is enharmonically equivalent to the augmented fourth found between scale degrees 1 and 4 in the...

Igor Stravinsky's use of diatonic and whole tone motifs, and scales, against an octatonic background, rotated by minor thirds. Stravinsky "considered them...

Scheherezade. Diminished or octatonic scale Rimsky-Korsakov first used this in his symphonic poem Sadko in 1867. This scale became a sort of Russian calling-card...

Debussy, and Fauré. In 1879, Polignac independently "discovered" the octatonic scale, which had been used in Russian folk music for centuries. He used it...

celebrations (1970) Dance Suite, for Brass Quintet (1989) Variations on an Octatonic Scale, for Recorder and Violoncello (1989) Psalm 148, for voice and piano...

of one of those three. Several scales may be referred to as diminished. One of the more common is the Octatonic scale constructed from Co7 and its tensions...

octatonic scale contains all of these pitches[clarification needed], and fits/matches up with the C13♭9♯11 chord: C–D♭–D♯–E–F♯–G–A–B♭–C; these scale elements...

major, and octatonic (diminished). This property implies that chords formed by taking every other note from some consecutive subset of the scale are triadic...

diminished (С octatonic) scale in Bartók's Crossed Hands (no. 99, vol. 4, Mikrokosmos); the B♭, E♭ and F♯ used for the D Phrygian dominant scale in Frederic...

Dmitri (2004). "Scale Networks in Debussy." Journal of Music Theory 48.2: 215–292. Tymoczko, Dmitri (2003). "Stravinsky and the Octatonic: A reconsideration...

music label record label, now part of Outhere Alpha chord, in the octatonic scale Alpha (band), a British electronic music group Alpha (Kazakh band)...

Sylvia. "'Rien de la tonalité usuelle: Edmond de Polignac and the Octatonic Scale in Nineteenth-Century France". 19th-Century Music 29 (2005): 97–120...

piece, Debussy abandoned the whole-tone scale he had often favoured previously in favour of the octatonic scale with what the Debussy scholar François...