diatonic
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1. diatonic - Adjective
2. diatonic - Adjective Satellite
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Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
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This intersecting of inherently non-symmetrical diatonic elements with inherently non-diatonic symmetrical elements seems to me the defining principle of the musical language of Le Sacre and the source of the unparalleled tension and conflicted energy of the work.
A generative grammar approach to diatonic harmonic structure.
Although a key signature may be written using any combination of sharp and flat symbols, about a dozen diatonic key signatures are by far the most common, and their use is assumed in much of this article.
Ambient house tracks generally lack a diatonic center and feature much atonality along with synthesized chords.
By a commonly used definition of diatonic scale (which excludes the harmonic minor and melodic minor scales), all perfect, major and minor intervals are diatonic.
Among these four well-known variants of the diatonic scale, the diatonic scale itself has additional properties of what has been called simplicity, because it is produced by iterations of a single generator, the meantone fifth.