Diatonic scales are the foundation of the European musical tradition.

The circle is commonly used to represent the relationship between diatonic scales.

It has from five to nine (usually eight) strings producing a diatonic scale.

The interval between adjacent staff positions is one step in the diatonic scale.

In Western music, intervals are most commonly differences between notes of a diatonic scale.

All these scales meet the definition of diatonic scale.

In this sense it generalizes a property of the familiar diatonic scale.

Examples include the diatonic scale (including major, natural minor, and the modes).

However, given the ambiguity of diatonic scale, this definition, too, is ambiguous.

A just diatonic scale may be derived as follows.

Tuning for each octave is a seven note natural diatonic scale.

The whole collection of diatonic scales as defined above can be divided into seven different modes.

At a 7:4 ratio, it is not close to any interval on the conventional Western diatonic scale.

These dividers are between the reeds, for the diatonic scale notes.

A complete 11th chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.

It follows that diatonic scales a perfect fifth apart share six of their seven notes.

The number of notes in the traditional Western diatonic scale (major or minor)

Another construction works backward: It omits two pitches from a diatonic scale.

A diatonic scale can be also described as two tetrachords separated by a whole tone.

Therefore, the diatonic scale is proper but not strictly proper.

He occasionally uses the diatonic scale, with rapidly changing tonality.

The single horizontal valve allowed the diatonic scale to be played by each bugle.

The seven-note diatonic scale is the foundation of the European musical tradition.

Their song now lifts, scatters along a diatonic scale.

The tones in the diatonic scale can be divided into pairs of semitones.

The interval between adjacent staff positions is one step in the diatonic scale.

Examples include the diatonic scale (including major, natural minor, and the modes).

These dividers are between the reeds, for the diatonic scale notes.

Therefore, the diatonic scale is proper but not strictly proper.

He occasionally uses the diatonic scale, with rapidly changing tonality.

The single horizontal valve allowed the diatonic scale to be played by each bugle.

The tones in the diatonic scale can be divided into pairs of semitones.

"A Pythagorean tuning of the diatonic scale", with audio samples.

For a given musical mode the key signature defines the diatonic scale that a piece of music uses.

In order to play the diatonic scale on a bansuri, one needs to find where the notes lie.

The major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales.

Notice that this scale is an extension of the diatonic scale shown in the previous table.

Because each button produces two notes, the diatonic scale can be covered in four buttons on a melody row.

Part writing in the strings is often centered between pitches of the diatonic scale, thus adding to the confusion and misery.

The diatonic scale as defined above has specific properties that make it unique among seven-note scales.

Early plainchant, like much of Western music, is believed to have been distinguished by the use of the diatonic scale.

While the diatonic scale was still used, the chromatic scale became "widely employed."

Some fixed just intonation scales and systems, such as the diatonic scale above, produce wolf intervals.

There is evidence that the Sumerians and Babylonians used some version of the diatonic scale.

The diatonic scale appears in writing throughout history, consisting of seven tones in each octave.

However, much of it employs the diatonic scale rather than the more "Asian" pentatonic scale.

The remaining notes of the diatonic scale are produced when the bellows are drawn or pulled.

The pipes No. 20 to 24 are smaller and almost equal in height and they seem to form an extension of the diatonic scale.

The instrument is tuned to the diatonic scale of C , its compass being:

In music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth tonal degree of the diatonic scale.