Sentence examples for a diatonic scale and from inspiring English sources

Some play a diatonic scale and some a chromatic.

It's a color-coded button grid that allows you to play in a diatonic scale by color, and uses shapes to coordinate chords across keys.

A piece of bone, inlaid into the top of the slide, is inscribed with positioning lines and pitch names for a diatonic scale of an octave and a sixth beginning with D and ending with B.

The unvarying rhythm and limitation to a diatonic scale means it doesn't hold an audience's attention, unlike orchestral music, but the effect on the ringer can be mesmerising.

Each mode comprises a diatonic scale with the compass of one octave.

Although its fretboard encourages a diatonic scale, notes can always be bent, as bluesmen understood from the beginning; strings can also be retuned.

Dominant, in music, the fifth tone or degree of a diatonic scale (i.e., any of the major or minor scales of the tonal harmonic system), or the triad built upon this degree.

The strongest harmonic progression in tonal music is from the dominant chord to the tonic triad (i.e., the triad built upon the first note of a diatonic scale).

In 1995 a 60,000-year-old bone fragment that looks like a flute with the finger-holes spaced so as to produce the tones of a diatonic scale was found in Slovenia.

The carving, named the Divje Babe Flute, features four holes that Canadian musicologist Bob Fink determined could have been used to play four notes of a diatonic scale.

But Asian music will never understand the diatonic scale, and at the end of the day the Western orchestra can produce only chinoiserie or its equivalent.