Definitions
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- adjective music Formed freely from all
degrees of adiatonic scale without regard for their diatonic function, sometimes to the extent of no singlepitch being felt as atonic .
Etymologies
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pan- + diatonic, coined by Nicolas Slonimsky.
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Examples
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It isn't difficult at all to trace a line from either Milhaud's polytonality or "wrong note" basses or Cowell's cluster or late pandiatonic music to those chords of Wilson you describe.
Our Prayer Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Conclusion: we didn't go quite as far as William Mann's "pandiatonic clusters" when reviewing the Beatles in the Times, or Tony Palmer's claim that they were the greatest song-writers since Schubert.
Top of the whats? Jessica 2008
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