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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In music, consisting of seven tones to the octave: said of scales: often contrasted with pentatonic.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. music Describing a mode or scale that has seven pitches in an octave

Etymologies

  1. hepta- +‎ tonic (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Now, with my own lips, I have played notes from Subterranean flutes twenty-five thousand years old standard diatonic to heptatonic, including a flatted la and a neutral third for mi, i.e., a blue note.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “We have already remarked that the current medieval theory laid down for the tone system a heptatonic diatonic scale of about two octaves with the addition of b flat in the higher octave.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

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