• An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. However, the term most often refers to the ancohemitonic symmetric scale composed of alternating whole...
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  • 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...
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  • octatonic scale. However, Tymoczko states that this was problematic in that it does not resolve all instances of multiple interactions between scales...
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  • 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...
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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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  • minor, harmonic major scale, harmonic minor scale, Hungarian major scale, Romanian major scale, and the so-called octatonic scale. Hemitonia is also quantified...
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  • 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)...
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  • 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:...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • notes"). This leads to scales with translational symmetry which include the octatonic scale (also known as the symmetric diminished scale; its mirror image...
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    celebrations (1970) Dance Suite, for Brass Quintet (1989) Variations on an Octatonic Scale, for Recorder and Violoncello (1989) Psalm 148, for voice and piano...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • or supertonic, giving twelve possibilities. The octatonic scale (or diminished scale), a symmetric scale, may be conceived of as two interlocking diminished...
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  • music label record label, now part of Outhere Alpha chord, in the octatonic scale Alpha (band), a British electronic music group Alpha (Kazakh band)...
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    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...
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    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...
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    of one of those three. Several scales may be referred to as diminished. One of the more common is the Octatonic scale constructed from C°7 and its tensions...
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  • D as extensions: The pitch collection is related to the octatonic scale, the whole tone scale, and the French sixth, all of which are capable of a different...
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  • Dmitri (2004). "Scale Networks in Debussy." Journal of Music Theory 48.2: 215–292. Tymoczko, Dmitri (2003). "Stravinsky and the Octatonic: A reconsideration...
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  • is common to the octatonic scale and the Phrygian scale on E, and the contrasting sections of the first movement based on the scales are linked by statements...
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  • 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...
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    Debussy, and Fauré. In 1879, Polignac independently "discovered" the octatonic scale, which had been used in Russian folk music for centuries. He used it...
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  • 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...
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    notes or tones comprising an octave. There are eight notes in the octatonic scale. There are eight musicians in a double quartet or an octet. Both terms...
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    piece, Debussy abandoned the whole-tone scale he had often favoured previously in favour of the octatonic scale with what the Debussy scholar François...
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    scales are the octatonic scale and the pentatonic or five-tone scale, which is common in folk music and blues. Non-Western cultures often use scales that...
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