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A ditonic scale is a musical scale or mode with two notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and...

hemitonic in scale.) Hemitonic pentatonic scales are also called "ditonic scales", because the largest interval in them is the ditone (e.g., in the scale C–E–F–G–B–C...

"black note" scale Tetratonic (4 notes), tritonic (3 notes), and ditonic (2 notes): generally limited to prehistoric ("primitive") music Scales may also be...

interval equivalent to two tones. It yields the English words ditone and ditonic (see Pythagorean comma), but it is quite distinct from διάτονος. The Byzantine...

used. The most common were tritonic (3-note) scales at 47%, while the third-most was ditonic (two-note) scales at 17%. Tetratonic music was noted as common...

Ditonic scale Divertimento Divisi Division viol DJ mix Dodeka music notation Dominant Dominant seventh sharp ninth chord Dorian mode Dorian ♭2 scale Dotted...

so called "neutral scale", used in gamelan music and some folk musical styles of Angola) and larger scales are hemitonic (ditonic or better) and tritonic...

comma (531441:524288) on C In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras...

The chord-scale system is a method of matching, from a list of possible chords, a list of possible scales. The system has been widely used since the 1970s...

fifths C-G, G-D, D-A, A-E, E-B, and B-F♯ are each 1⁄6 of a Pythagorean (ditonic) comma narrower than just. The exact and approximate numerical sizes of...

(4:1)—and so on. Standard diatonic Pythagorean tuning (Ptolemy's Diatonic Ditonic) is easily derived starting from superparticular ratios, (n+1)/n, constructed...

81:80 are considered the same note because the 12-note Western chromatic scale does not distinguish Pythagorean intervals from 5-limit intervals in its...

songs contain only one repeated phrase and many of their scales only two to three notes (ditonic or tritonic). This style was carried to the Great Plains...

fifths F-C, C-G, G-D, D-A, A-E, and E-B are each 1⁄6 of a Pythagorean (ditonic) comma narrower than just. The exact and approximate numerical sizes of...

List of chord progressions List of meantone intervals List of musical scales and modes Maneri-Sims notation Fox, Christopher (2003). "Microtones and...