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Definition of Major scale
1. Noun. A diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th.
Generic synonyms: Mode, Musical Mode
Specialized synonyms: C Major, C Major Scale, Scale Of C Major
Definition of Major scale
1. Noun. One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Major Scale
Literary usage of Major scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Harmony by Salomon Jadassohn, Paul Torek, Henry Bickford Pasmore (1890)
"The minor scale nearest related to a major scale has the same signature as that
... It begins with the sixth tone of the major scale or, which is the same ..."
2. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"In the major scale, as we have seen, ... The other marks which distinguish the
above minor scale from a major scale, namely, the semitone between the fifth ..."
3. First Theory Book by Diller, Angela (1921)
"PART THREE CHAPTER TWELVE Triads in the major scale A Triad is a chord composed of
... We found in the Chapter on Intervals, that the major scale contained ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The necessity for a signature arises from the fact that in modern music every
major scale is an exact copy of the scale of C, and every minor scale a copy ..."
5. The Nature of Harmony and Metre by Moritz Hauptmann (1888)
"The scale of the minor-major key ascending will move like the major scale through
the tonic major Third up to the Fifth ; its progress beyond will be that ..."
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