Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, consisting of seven tones to the octave: said of scales: often contrasted with pentatonic.
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- adjective music Describing a
mode orscale that has sevenpitches in anoctave
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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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.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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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 1840-1916 1913
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