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One of the weaknesses of much pre-Classic music is the prevalence of bland diatonic harmony.
Harmonically, the added notes are needed to provide a major or minor triad for each note of the diatonic scale.
The modulator work must now include free leaps to and from any tone of the major diatonic scale.
In tonal music the intervals between the successive pitches are not literally replicated but become the equivalents within the diatonic scale.
There is dissonance, beautiful dissonance, mixed with more diatonic harmony.
The number of bells in a peal varies from three to 12, usually tuned to a diatonic major scale, or part of one.
The fingering indicated is performed easily by a student with modest hand size and capitalizes on diatonic scale patterns.
All three were normally diatonic only, though players could raise the pitch by a semitone by stopping a string near the neck.
As a university music student, Jean-Marc decided to give the diatonic button accordion a try.
The 48 buttons are placed on four rows, of which the two central ones are the diatonic scale.
The major scale, minor scale and the church modes are all based on the diatonic scale.
This European diatonic harp developed into the modern harp and survives in the folk harps of Latin America.
The instrument is normally completely diatonic, although there are chromatic models.
Chromatic harmonicas can play any semitone over several octaves, but the diatonic harmonica can only play a given set of notes.
A diatonic accordion is made of three parts: bellows are located in the central part.
Scales based on the diatonic scale will always consist of 5 tones and 2 semitones.
Accordion tablature: Harmony computes tablatures for diatonic accordion from any staff.
It seeks a transparent sound that is better suited by a more sober, clear diatonic climate.
When one works in a chromatic, rather than diatonic, idiom to begin with, it's not unusual to want to work with basic materials which incorporate all twelve tones.
The works were thus undemanding either of technical or interpretative skill, their characteristics being formal simplicity, melodic agreeableness, plain diatonic harmony, homophonic textures, and the major mode.
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In the diatonic, there are two consecutive tones, and the third interval of a semitone completes the tetrachord.
But in the quaint jump of the third the Church had no part, clinging closely to a diatonic process.
The system of tonality upon which the music of the Middle Age was based was the modal or diatonic.
The notes are the fifth, and major third, of the diatonic scale.
These eight beatitudes are the diatonic scale of heaven's music.
All progressions must be diatonic, and parts should not cross.
By this means, says Domnich, a diatonic and chromatic scale was obtained.
The fifteen characters, it has been noticed, form two diatonic octaves.
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