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Definition of Diatonic scale
1. Noun. A scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones.
Definition of Diatonic scale
1. Noun. A seven note musical scale of five tones and two semitones. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diatonic Scale
Literary usage of 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 (1895)
"THEORETICAL NATURE OF THE diatonic scale IN ITS ANCIENT FORM. THE facts brought
forward in the last chapter to explain the origin of our present diatonic ..."
2. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"In speaking of the diatonic scale in the last two chapters, it has been assumed
to be the modern major scale; this being the simplest one in construction, ..."
3. Folio (1836)
"в •• •-- The centre is the discrete and diatonic scale, —the left hand lengthened
notes, represent the rising concrete intervals or tones of an octave, ..."
4. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book for the Use by Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell (1871)
"If the whole, and these fractions, are made to vibrate in order, the ear will
recognize the sounds as forming the series called the gamut, or diatonic scale ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Four fifths of all his singing is done within the narrow limits of three or lour
notes of the diatonic scale, and it is a question whether the utmost range ..."
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