diatonic (Crossword)
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- French word used in English
- French word in the English language
- Kind of scale
- Like a certain musical scale
- Relative of chromatic
Definitions of “diatonic”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• The (Western) standard seven-tone scale
• Melody or harmony confined to the tones of the scale
• Of or pertaining to the tones, intervals, or harmonies of such scales
• Noting those scales that contain five whole tones and two semitones, as the major
• Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first
• In music, the term diatonic was originally applied by the Greeks to one of their three genera of music
• The name of that genus or scale of ancient Greek music in which the interval of a tone was used
• Based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of Western music
• In modern music, denoting the scale which in any key proceeds by the notes proper to that key without chromatic alteration
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