Diatonic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Music Of or using only the seven tones of a standard scale without chromatic alterations.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Within the boundaries of a musical scale, most commonly the Western major or minor tonalities that have octaves of seven notes in a particular configuration
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In Greek music, noting one of the three standard tetrachords, consisting of four tones at the successive intervals of a half tone, a tone, and a tone: distinguished from chromatic and enharmonic. See tetrachord.
  • In modern music, using the tones, intervals. or harmonies of the standard major or minor scales without chromatic alteration.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music
  • adj. based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals
  • Equivalent
    tonal   
    Antonym
    chromatic   
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