Definitions
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- adjective music Containing eight
notes .
Etymologies
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Of course, if any music writer wants to start saying things like "This band goes in-between using blues and octatonic scales for melodies while using a bitonal harmonic structure" they've probably lost their job right then, only like ten music geeks will love that writer and everyone else will stop reading.
Tunes For Thought SVGL 2009
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Strausbaugh enjoys setting memorable melodies against more challenging modern harmonic language; his concerto will employ an octatonic, or eight-tone, scale and augmented sounds that widen typical harmonic intervals.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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Examples of this are the whole-tone and octatonic scales.
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