In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. A scale ordered by increasing pitch is an ascending scale...

The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many...

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...

intelligibility and appeal of music. A musical scale is a discrete set of pitches used in making or describing music. The most important scale in the Western tradition...

fixed ratio of length Vernier scale, the scale on calipers Scale (music), a sequence of ordered musical notes Scale (string instruments), the sounding length...

pentatonic scales used in much Japanese music, excluding gagaku and Buddhist shōmyō. The in scale, which contains minor notes, is used specifically in music for...

steps in an octave. More comprehensively, svara-graam (scale) is the practical concept of Indian music comprising seven + five= twelve most useful musical...

In music theory, the minor scale has three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor...

Hemitonic scales contain one or more semitones and anhemitonic scales do not contain semitones. (For example, in Japanese music the anhemitonic yo scale is contrasted...

beats. In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences that occur over time, of the steps of a...

In music, duration is an amount of time or how long or short a note, phrase, section, or composition lasts. "Duration is the length of time a pitch, or...

Hypomixolydian mode of medieval music, by contrast, has no modern counterpart.) The modern diatonic mode is the scale forming the basis of both the rising...

Gypsy scale refers to one of several musical scales named after their support of and association with Romani or "Gypsy" music: Double harmonic scale (major)...

In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in...

to seven flats or seven sharps, that indicates the notes used in its scale. Music was sometimes notated with a key signature that did not match its key...

equations with differential equations In music: Rhythm, a temporal pattern of events Time scale (music), which divides music into sections of time In project...

In music, the Phrygian dominant scale is the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale, the fifth being the dominant. Also called the altered Phrygian scale...

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree () of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is...

scale adapted from shamisen music by Yatsuhashi Kengyō for tuning of the koto. "The hirajoshi, kumoijoshi, and kokinjoshi 'scales' are Western derivations...

In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Famous examples include the whole-tone scale, C D E F♯ G♯...

In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which...

pentatonic scale with the five wuxing; and the eight tone classification of Chinese instruments of bayin with the eight symbols of bagua. No actual music or texts...

scale, which is like the Dorian but does not contain minor notes, according to a traditional theory is a pentatonic scale used in much Japanese music...

A jazz scale is any musical scale used in jazz. Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from Western European classical music, including the diatonic...

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

made from them; in mensural music most often theorists applied it to division of longa into 3 or 2 breves. A musical scale is a series of pitches in a...

いんせん) is a tuning scale adapted from shamisen music by Yatsuhashi Kengyō for tuning of the koto. It only differs from the hirajoshi scale by one note. In...

A-flat) is a major scale based on A♭, with the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats. The A-flat major scale is: Its relative...

The Akebono scale is a musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music. Akebono and the Diatonic scale use the same intervals, but Akebono has...

The double harmonic major scale is a musical scale with a flattened second and sixth degree. This scale is enharmonic to the Mayamalavagowla raga, Bhairav...