major scale

Noun

Meaning

a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th

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Synonyms

major diatonic scale compass diapason diatonic scale mixolydian mode larger scale broader scale bigger scale complete musical scale considerable scale enormous scale essential scale older scale significant scale upper scale

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Antonyms

minor scale defined area few and far between hardly any handful of limited range

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Hypernyms

mode musical mode

Hyponyms

C major C major scale scale of C major

Examples

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. Michael Korda

Azzara 2009, pp. 95–96 Pohl 1997, p. 99 The king's disintegrating authority over his army was also manifested in the invasion of Frankish Burgundy which from 569 or 570 was subject to yearly raids on a major scale. Source: Internet

For example, an ascending E flat major scale could be played L-R-R-L-L-R-R-L, keeping the left hand on the "black" bars and the right hand on the "white". Source: Internet

A tritone (the interval of the fourth step to the seventh step of the major scale, i.e., F to B) sounds very dissonant alone, but less so within the context of a dominant seventh chord (G7 or D 7 in that example). Source: Internet

A natural minor scale has the same notes as its relative major scale, but is built starting from the sixth note of the relative major scale. Source: Internet

As in Western solfege, there are names for the seven basic pitches of a major scale (Shadja, Rishabh, Gandhar, Madhyam, Pancham, Dhaivat and Nishad, usually shortened Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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