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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Semitone (redirect from Diatonic semitone)
occur 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....
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and violin, can also produce microtones, or notes between those available on a piano. Most music uses subsets of the chromatic scale such as diatonic...
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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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Genus (music) (redirect from Diatonic genus)
"The word diatonic means 'through the tones' (i.e., through the tones of the key)" (Gehrkens, 1914, see Diatonic and chromatic § Diatonic includes the...
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notes of the chromatic scale, resulting in a total of eighty-four diatonic scales. The modern musical keyboard originated as a diatonic keyboard with...
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(viio). A chord may also have chromatic notes, that is, notes outside of the diatonic scale. Perhaps the most basic chromatic alteration in simple folk songs...
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Interval (music) (redirect from Simple and compound intervals)
well as any other diatonic interval, can be also formed by the notes of a chromatic scale. The distinction between diatonic and chromatic intervals is controversial...
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Harmonica (redirect from Diatonic harmonica)
classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica...
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the associated note. Chromatic harmonicas are traditionally tuned to solo tuning, which has a similar layout to the diatonic's Richter tuning except...
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Neo-Riemannian theory, and leads to some interesting connections between diatonic and chromatic theory. Emmanuel Amiot has discovered yet another way to define...
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third Diatonic and chromatic, as a property of several structures, genres, and other features in music, often contrasted with diatonic Chromatics (band)...
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Hurdy-gurdy (section Electric and electronic versions)
shape and a long pear shape. Usually diatonic, but has been extended with a chromatic range with the additional keys placed below the normal diatonic range...
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between a diatonic and chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from B to C is a diatonic semitone, the interval from B to B♯ is a chromatic semitone...
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Classically, the diatonic tetrachord consists of two intervals of a tone and one of a semitone, e.g. A–G–F–E. Chromatic A chromatic tetrachord has a characteristic...
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Circle of fifths (redirect from Diatonic circle of fifths)
octaves above the initial tone and makes the frequency ratio of the chromatic semitone the same as that of the diatonic semitone. The standard tempered...
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Heptatonic scale (section Diatonic scale)
pitches, or tones, per octave. Examples include: the diatonic scale; e.g., in C major: C D E F G A B C—and in the relative minor, A minor, natural minor: A...
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direction accidental: any note of the chromatic scale outside the diatonic scale of a DBA's "home" key Most diatonic button accordions have a "single-action"...
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Garmon (category Russian words and phrases)
accordions in the Volga region and the Caucasus (see below). Also after it there were made Russian diatonic and chromatic accordions: Elets "royal" (means...
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proceeding with the principle that historically gives the Pythagorean diatonic and chromatic scales, stacking perfect fifths with 3:2 frequency proportions (C–G–D–A–E)...
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resembling modern diatonic button accordions. The first unisonoric accordions were built in Russia in the first half of the 1840s, with chromaticism not appearing...
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Matins, "O nimis felix" sung at Lauds, and doxologies added after the first two parts. Diatonic and chromatic Do-Re-Mi (song). The lyrics teach the solfege...
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Pat Bergeson (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Nashville and soon established himself as a sought after session and live musician. Equally at home with guitar and diatonic and chromatic harmonica styles...
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Equal temperament (section Regular diatonic tunings)
"regular" diatonic tunings. 19 TET If the diatonic semitone is set double the size of the chromatic semitone, i.e. s = 2 c (in cents) and κ = 0 , the...
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these files? See media help. In music, chromatic mediants are "altered mediant and submediant chords." A chromatic mediant relationship defined conservatively...
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Major second (section Major and minor tones)
minor seconds (m2) and augmented unisons (A1), or diatonic and chromatic semitones. Unlike almost all uses of the terms major and minor, these intervals...
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Modulation (music) (redirect from Diatonic pivot chord modulation)
chord modulation, in order to distinguish the chromaticism that would be introduced from the otherwise diatonic method. An enharmonic modulation takes place...
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Quarter-comma meantone (section Diatonic scale)
chromatic and diatonic semitones; the chromatic semitone is the difference between C and C♯, and the diatonic semitone the difference between C and D♭...
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making diatonic and chromatic playing impossible, except in the extreme high register. The valves change the length of the vibrating column and provide...
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Perfect fourth (category 3-limit tuning and intervals)
Baroque music of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi triadic harmony was thoroughly utilized. Diatonic and chromatic passages strongly outlining the...
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