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Definition of Pentatonic
1. Adjective. Relating to a pentatonic scale.
Definition of Pentatonic
1. Adjective. (music) Based on five tones. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pentatonic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentatonic
Literary usage of Pentatonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1914)
"Fourth and seventh are the tones which are lacking in the pentatonic scale, and
the songs without one or the other of them approach the pentatonic songs in ..."
2. Music (1894)
"An example of such a transformation of an originally pentatonic melody into one of
... But whether the latter has itself been developed from some pentatonic ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1907)
"pentatonic SCALE. The name given to an early tonality of very imperfect construction,
but extremely beautiful in its aesthetic aspect, and peculiar to a ..."
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