diatonic

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In the diatonic, the distance between the intervals is easier to understand, because it is natural.

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  1. adjective Music Of or using only the seven tones of a standard scale without chromatic alterations.

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  • IMHO chromatic and diatonic are really the two great linear forces at work in music and I love to watch them bump and grind against each other.
  • One thing that can help you see what's up is that is you are comfortable with diatonic movement through the chords, you can look for the pitches that 'make it minor' change from their diatonic (major scale) counterpart. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Advanced options allow you to choose between diatonic, minor and harmonic scales. —  Low End Mac
  • With their three scales, diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic, they must have exhausted every possible expression of feeling. —  Gryll Grange
  • In the diatonic, the distance between the intervals is easier to understand, because it is natural. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
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  1. Late Latin diatonicus, from Greek diatonikos : dia-, dia- + tonos, tone; see tone.

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  1. = French diatonique = Spanish diatónico = Portuguese Italian diatonico (cf. D. G. diatonisch = Danish Swedish diatonisk), from Late Latin diatonicus, from Greek διατονικόν, also simply διάτονον (sc. γένος, class), the diatonic scale, neuter of διάτονος, extending through, from διατείνειν, stretch through, extend, from διά, through, + τείνειν, stretch, later τόνος, tone: see tone.
 

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