One of the weaknesses of much pre-Classic music is the prevalence of bland diatonic harmony. |
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Harmonically, the added notes are needed to provide a major or minor triad for each note of the diatonic scale. |
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The modulator work must now include free leaps to and from any tone of the major diatonic scale. |
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In tonal music the intervals between the successive pitches are not literally replicated but become the equivalents within the diatonic scale. |
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There is dissonance, beautiful dissonance, mixed with more diatonic harmony. |
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The number of bells in a peal varies from three to 12, usually tuned to a diatonic major scale, or part of one. |
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The fingering indicated is performed easily by a student with modest hand size and capitalizes on diatonic scale patterns. |
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All three were normally diatonic only, though players could raise the pitch by a semitone by stopping a string near the neck. |
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As a university music student, Jean-Marc decided to give the diatonic button accordion a try. |
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The 48 buttons are placed on four rows, of which the two central ones are the diatonic scale. |
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The major scale, minor scale and the church modes are all based on the diatonic scale. |
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This European diatonic harp developed into the modern harp and survives in the folk harps of Latin America. |
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The instrument is normally completely diatonic, although there are chromatic models. |
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Chromatic harmonicas can play any semitone over several octaves, but the diatonic harmonica can only play a given set of notes. |
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A diatonic accordion is made of three parts: bellows are located in the central part. |
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Scales based on the diatonic scale will always consist of 5 tones and 2 semitones. |
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Accordion tablature: Harmony computes tablatures for diatonic accordion from any staff. |
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It seeks a transparent sound that is better suited by a more sober, clear diatonic climate. |
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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. |
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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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The group moves with a diatonic accordion and three chromatic accordions. |
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It is because of this tritone that one must progress from G7 to Cmaj, and from Dm6 to A minor in the diatonic mode, which imparts a truly minor color and removes all the exceptions, granting the true minor its real place. |
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Other accordions, such as the diatonic button accordion, have only a single shoulder strap and a right hand thumb strap. |
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When the two instruments are combined, the result is quite similar to diatonic button accordions still manufactured today. |
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Themes are now predominantly of a lyrical cast, large-scale works bear close resemblance to traditional forms, harmony is more diatonic, the moods are gentler. |
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Accompanying Kate and Damien on tour are double bass player Duncan Lyall, Stevie Byrnes on bouzouki and Nick Cooke on the diatonic accordion. |
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He has therefore altered some of the key signatures to suit diatonic instruments. |
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After advancing through the preceding technical preparation, Long takes the student into her approach to diatonic scale playing. |
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In 1995 a 60,000-year-old bone fragment that looks like a flute with the finger-holes spaced so as to produce the tones of a diatonic scale was found in Slovenia. |
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And she has just acquired a banjo, to add to her guitar, organ, piano, piano accordion, diatonic accordion, harmonica, mandolin and tin flute. |
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There is an excellent section on forms of the seventh chords and their inversions, with diatonic seventh chords in root position in all keys. |
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These chords are triads with still another diatonic third superposed. |
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For what it's worth the two outer rows are tuned to the diatonic scale and the semitones are in the middle row. |
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Musical works consist of only seven notes on a diatonic scale and a limited number of rhythms. |
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Harmonicas are split into two big families: chromatic and diatonic. |
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It requires learning not only the music, which uses many different modes, rather than the familiar diatonic scale, but also learning the Russian pronunciation of the text. |
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The outside rows are tuned in unison, and always in the diatonic scale, that is, in the regular and natural scale of tones and semitones, as a peal of eight bells is tuned. |
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Marchetto further provoked Prosdocimo's ire by applying traditional terms such as enharmonic, chromatic, and diatonic in unconventional ways to his newly defined intervals. |
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One man's greatest invention the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator had somehow turned water into food. |
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