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• Semitone — This article is about the musical interval. For the printing method, see halftone. semitone Inverse major seventh (for minor second); diminished octave (for augmented unison); augmented octave (for diminished unison) Name Other names minor second …   Wikipedia

• Chromatic scale — Qualities Number of pitch classes 12 Maximal evenness Degenerate well formed collection The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone apart. On a modern piano or other …   Wikipedia

• Twelve-tone technique — Arnold Schoenberg, the inventor of Twelve tone technique …   Wikipedia

• Bohlen-Pierce scale — The Bohlen Pierce scale (BP scale) is a musical scale that offers an alternative to the octave repeating scales typical in Western and other musics, specifically the diatonic scale. In addition, compared with octave repeating scales, its… …   Wikipedia

• Heptatonic scale — A heptatonic scale is a musical scale with seven pitches per octave. Among the most famous of these are the diatonic scale , C D E F G A B C; the melodic minor scale , C D Eb F G A B C ascending, C Bb Ab G F Eb D C descending; the harmonic minor… …   Wikipedia

• Musical scale — For psychoacoustic scale, see bark scale and mel scale. Pattern of whole and half steps in the Ionian mode or major scale on C   …   Wikipedia

• Diatonic scale — Qualities Number of pitch classes 7 Maximal evenness Well formed generated collection Myhill s property Deep scale property Cardinality equals variety Struc …   Wikipedia

• Octatonic scale — Octatonic scales on C  Play (help …   Wikipedia

• Whole tone scale — Qualities Number of pitch classes 6 Maximal evenness Degenerate well formed collection In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole …   Wikipedia

• minor scale — n. Music any of the twelve diatonic scales distinguished from the major scale with the same keynote by a semitone after the second and seventh tones or after the second, fifth, and seventh tones …   English World dictionary

• major scale — n. Music any of the diatonic scales having the eight tones succeeding by whole tones but with a semitone between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth tones: there are twelve major scales, one in each key …   English World dictionary