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Definition of Minor diatonic scale
1. Noun. A diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minor Diatonic Scale
Literary usage of Minor diatonic scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"The intervals are reckoned upwards from the key-note C. The minor diatonic scale.
In speaking of the diatonic scale in the last two chapters, ..."
2. Apollo of Song: A Carefully Graded Rudimental Work for Public Schools and by S. G. Smith (1897)
"Why called minor diatonic scale? Minor, because the first third of the scale is
m inor ; diatonic, pertaining to the scale of right Iones, the eighth of ..."
3. Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice by Arthur Foote, Walter Raymond Spalding (1905)
"The pattern of the major scale is fixed, and there is but one form, the same for
all major keys. 22. The formation of the minor diatonic scale is as ..."
4. Physics in Everyday Life by William D. Henderson, Lyons and Carnahan (1921)
"... that based on the minor chord (10 : 12 : 15 : 20) is called the minor diatonic
scale. There is given below the major diatonic scale, Fig. 281. FIG. 281. ..."
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