Sentence examples similar to minor diatonic scale from inspiring English sources

The descending minor third, being fundamental to the diatonic scale, abounds in musical history: 'The Song of the Volga Boatmen,' begins on a descending minor third.

Some play a diatonic scale and some a chromatic.

This is the second inescapable obstacle to perfection in the tuning of the diatonic scale.

The semitones of the diatonic scale are relatively large, at 117 cents.

The same cannot be said of other intervals of the diatonic scale.

The Pythagorean "diatonic" scale, still the basis of most Western music, is made up from seven notes.

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

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.

The roaring finale transformed a simple ascending diatonic scale into a vehicle for visceral catharsis, eliciting an approving roar from the audience.

Triad, in music, a chord made up of three tones, called chord factors, of the diatonic scale: root, third, and fifth.

Apart from the octave, which presents no problem, there are really only three distinct intervals in the diatonic scale the consonance of which is important.