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Definition of Gapped scale
1. Noun. A musical scale with fewer than seven notes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gapped Scale
Literary usage of Gapped scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"... and possessing, c • ini -il i position of 1090 I do not know who first pointed
out that old Irish music was constructed on a gapped scale. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"If we omit the semi-tones, these series will represent the five keys of the gapped
scale ; if we do not omit them, we have the flve melodic families of ..."
3. Bards of the Gael and Gall: Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn, Done by George Sigerson (1907)
"... as in music they employed the "gapped scale." <Bnt their experiments in verse
architecture were so numerous and so intricate, as well as so interesting, ..."
4. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"... and possessing, c • ini -il i position of 1090 I do not know who first pointed
out that old Irish music was constructed on a gapped scale. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"If we omit the semi-tones, these series will represent the five keys of the gapped
scale ; if we do not omit them, we have the flve melodic families of ..."
6. Bards of the Gael and Gall: Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn, Done by George Sigerson (1907)
"... as in music they employed the "gapped scale." <Bnt their experiments in verse
architecture were so numerous and so intricate, as well as so interesting, ..."
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