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Any musical scale used in jazz
including the diatonic, whole-tone, octatonic (or diminished), and the modes of the ascending melodic minor. All of these scales were commonly used by late
Jazz_scale
Skin tone scale for machine learning research
The Monk Skin Tone Scale (MST) is an open-source, 10-shade scale describing human skin color. It was developed by Ellis Monk in partnership with Google
Monk_Skin_Tone_Scale
Ascending or descending sequence of musical tones
tell us more about the sound of the music than does the mere number of tones." Scales may also be described by their symmetry, such as being palindromic,
Scale_(music)
Musical scale set of twelve pitches
In Western music, a chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches within an octave, where the interval between any two adjacent notes
Chromatic_scale
Scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by a whole tone
music, a whole-tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole tone. In twelve-tone equal temperament
Whole-tone_scale
Topics referred to by the same term
Tone scale may refer to: Musical scales, including the Whole tone scale Color scales Emotional tone scale, a Scientology concept Tonic (music) Diatonic
Tone_scale
Auditory illusion
bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually
Shepard_tone
Musical interval
A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone
Quarter_tone
Seventh mode of the melodic minor scale
scale, altered dominant scale, or super-Locrian scale (Locrian ♭4 scale) is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all non-essential tones
Altered_scale
on the tone scale is called uptone or high toned, and one low on the tone scale is called downtone or low toned. According to Hubbard, one's tone affects
Scientology beliefs and practices
Scientology_beliefs_and_practices
Classification of skin color and response to UV light
categorizations in dermatological and genetic research. Monk Skin Tone Scale von Luschan's chromatic scale Skin reflectance Brown Paper Bag Test D'Orazio, John; Jarrett
Fitzpatrick_scale
Tonal degree of the diatonic scale
lower and upper leading tone, respectively. Typically, the leading tone refers to the seventh scale degree of a major scale (), a major seventh above
Leading_tone
Type of musical scale
using scale tones 1, ♭3, 4, 5, and ♭7 of the natural minor scale. (It may also be considered a gapped blues scale.) The C minor pentatonic scale, the relative
Pentatonic_scale
Musical scale created by Harry Partch
The 43-tone scale is a just intonation scale with 43 pitches in each octave. It is based on an eleven-limit tonality diamond, similar to the seven-limit
Harry_Partch's_43-tone_scale
Musical tuning system
Hermann von Helmholtz wrote in On the Sensations of Tone that a Chinese prince (see below) introduced a scale of seven notes, and that the division of the octave
Equal_temperament
Scale with six pitches
hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Famous examples include the whole-tone scale, C D E F♯ G♯ A♯ C; the augmented scale, C D♯
Hexatonic_scale
Musical scale with seven pitches
heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave. Examples include: the diatonic scale; including the major scale and its
Heptatonic_scale
In music, a common tone is a pitch class that is a member of, or common to (shared by) two or more scales or sets. A common tone is a pitch class that
Common_tone_(scale)
Scale in jazz terminology
Bebop scale is a term referring to the practice of adding a note (typically a chromatic passing tone) to any common seven tone scale in order to make it
Bebop_scale
Method of pairing compatible chords and scales
chord tone/chord arpeggio method, and where one scale on one root note is used throughout all chords in a progression (for example the blues scale on A
Chord-scale_system
Musical composition method
the chromatic scale are sounded equally often in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, orderings
Twelve-tone_technique
Musical tuning system of 24 tones per octave
twenty-four tones, seven are selected to produce a scale and thus the interval of a quarter tone is never used and the three-quarter tone or neutral second
Arab_tone_system
Tuning system for musical instruments
can be seen that basic step-wise scale intervals appear: s = 16:15 (semitone) t = 10:9 (minor tone) T = 9:8 (major tone) which may be combined to form larger
Five-limit_tuning
1951 book by L. Ron Hubbard
concepts that were later to become key elements of Scientology—theta and the tone scale—and also endorsed the concept of past lives. The book has been criticized
Science_of_Survival
musical scales and modes. Degrees are relative to the major scale. Bebop scale Chord-scale system Flamenco mode Heptatonic scale Hexany Jazz scale List of
List of musical scales and modes
List_of_musical_scales_and_modes
This is a list of notable musical works which use the whole tone scale. Béla Bartók Cantata Profana, b. 186–187 Concerto for Orchestra, fifth movement
List of pieces that use the whole-tone scale
List_of_pieces_that_use_the_whole-tone_scale
Tonal center of a diatonic scale
particular key. Scales are based on their tonic pitch, or tonic note, which is why they begin and end with their tonic pitch. This is also why scales are named
Tonic_(music)
Scale obtained by sharpening the second and third degrees of the locrian mode
described as a whole tone scale extending from G♭ to E, with F introduced within the diminished third interval from E to G♭. The scale therefore shares with
Major_Locrian_scale
Musical scale
enigmatic scale (Italian: scala enigmatica) is an unusual musical scale, with elements of both major and minor scales, as well as the whole-tone scale. It was
Enigmatic_scale
Indonesian musical pentatonic scale used in Gamelan
Play both slendro and whole tone scale - Problems playing this file? See media help. Slendro (Javanese: ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ) is one of the essential tuning systems
Slendro
Musical interval
second and the diminished third, are also called tones, whole tones, or whole steps. In a major scale, there are major seconds between the first, second
Major_second
Scale used in Japanese music
melody to view scales on the basis of "nuclear tones" located a fourth apart and containing notes between them, as in the miyako-bushi scale used in koto
In_scale
Scales used in Japanese traditional music
Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic
Japanese_musical_scales
Sequence of all twelve chromatic tones
the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found. Tone rows are the basis of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique and
Tone_row
Music scale which equally divides the octave
scale, whole-tone scale, Dorian scale, the Aeolian Dominant scale (fifth mode of the melodic minor), and the double harmonic scale. Asymmetric scales
Symmetric_scale
Method of classifying skin color
36 categories of the von Luschan scale in relation to the six categories of the Fitzpatrick scale: Monk Skin Tone Scale Jablonski. The Evolution of Human
Von_Luschan's_chromatic_scale
Musical tuning based on pure intervals
developed a system of notation to describe scales. Hermann von Helmholtz adapted it in On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory
Just_intonation
Seven-tone musical scale
mode is a seven-tone musical scale formed from a rising pattern of pitches comprising three whole tones, a semitone, two more whole tones, and a final semitone
Lydian_mode
Class of music scales with seven notes
In music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic (seven-note) scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each
Diatonic_scale
Musical scale containing no semitones
pentatonic scale. The whole tone scale is also anhemitonic. A special subclass of the hemitonic scales is the cohemitonic scales. Cohemitonic scales contain
Anhemitonic_scale
Musical Scale
Dominant ♭6 scale, is an excellent choice for the 9 ♯11 ♭13 chord. Said mode contains all the alterations plus the ♮5. A whole tone scale is often used
Neapolitan_scale
Musical modes with repeating intervals
of times. For example, mode 1, the whole tone scale, contains the intervals tone, tone, tone, tone, tone, tone. Starting on any degree of the mode gives
Mode_of_limited_transposition
Use in music of microtones (intervals smaller than a semitone)
of the early blues concur that its pitch scale has within it three microtonal "blue notes" not found in 12 tone equal temperament intonation. It was used
Microtonality
Relationship among tones of the chromatic scale
to construct a repeating twelve-tone scale, nor to modulate. This was done later in meantone temperament and twelve-tone equal temperament, which allowed
Circle_of_fifths
Topics referred to by the same term
arabic scale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Arabic scale may refer to: Double harmonic scale, a scale with two augmented seconds Quarter tone scale, or
Arabic_scale
Type of musical scale and characteristic behaviors
groups of tones within a certain scale so that, depending on the point of view, mode takes on the meaning of either a "particularized scale" or a "generalized
Mode_(music)
Musical scale
the untrained subjects. Every tone of the Pierce 3579b scale is in a major and minor triad except for tone II of the scale. There are thirteen possible
Bohlen–Pierce_scale
Musical scale comprising seven notes
major scale. In the harmonic (major or minor) scale, the 6th tone to the 7th tone is an augmented second, and in the melodic (major or minor) scale, the
Major_scale
Class of musical scales
chord, when considered as a scale (the Prometheus scale), is an example of a synthetic chord—in that it is a whole tone scale with one degree altered. However
Synthetic_scale
Basic musical interval
theory, a semitone (also called a half step or half tone) is one of two parts into which a whole tone is divided. Semitones are the smallest intervals commonly
Semitone
Music genre blending jazz with traditional Ethiopian music
Ethiopian music with jazz, combining the pentatonic scale-based melodies of Amharic music with the 12-tone scale and instrumentation of western music. Over time
Ethio-jazz
Composition for piano by Claude Debussy
composition studies the whole-tone scale intensively, with the exception of a brief six-measure section in the pentatonic scale. The structure of the piece
Voiles
Piano composition by Claude Debussy
work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the Lydian mode and the diatonic scale, the Lydian mode functioning as an effective mediator
L'isle_joyeuse
Compact musical keyboard layout
Subtle Whole Tone Scale (6–6) Color Scheme Minor Thirds Color Scheme (4–4–4) Whole Tone Scale (6–6) Color Scheme Strong Whole Tone Scale (6–6) and Subtle
Wicki–Hayden_note_layout
Difference in pitch between two notes
chromatic scale, a whole tone is an interval spanning two semitones (for example, a major second), and a tritone is an interval spanning three tones, or six
Interval_(music)
Musical mode
reciting tone/reciting note or tenor) into a fourth species of perfect fifth (tone–tone–semitone–tone) plus a third species of perfect fourth (tone–tone–semitone):
Ionian_mode
Musical interval
listed intervals can be played on an instrument using a repeated-octave 12-tone scale (such as a piano) tuned with D-based symmetric Pythagorean tuning. Further
Pythagorean_interval
1995 book by Mark Levine
wide range of jazz concepts from melodic minor scales and whole tone scale to bebop scales, diminished scales and "Coltrane" reharmonization. Levine assumes
The_Jazz_Theory_Book
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, tone is the use of pitch contour, pitch register, or both to distinguish lexical
Tone_(linguistics)
Ancient Greek musical scale
music theory, an enharmonic scale is an ancient Greek musical scale which contains four notes tuned to approximately quarter tone pitches, bracketed (as pairs)
Enharmonic_scale
Musical interval
quarter-tone scale, named by Ivan Wyschnegradsky to describe the tones surrounding the tritone (F♯/G♭) found in the more familiar twelve-tone scale, as shown
Major_fourth_and_minor_fifth
Topics referred to by the same term
Common tone may refer to: Common tone (chord) Common tone (scale) Common tone diminished seventh chord Common chord (disambiguation) This disambiguation
Common_tone
Method of tuning a musical instrument
which were composed into scales spanning an octave. A distinction can be made between extended Pythagorean tuning and a 12-tone Pythagorean temperament
Pythagorean_tuning
Topics referred to by the same term
Arab tone system, the modern Arabic system of musical tuning Chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale, a set of twelve pitches used in tonal music Tone (linguistics)
Tonal_system
main tones of Standard Chinese, together with the neutral (or fifth) tone. To describe the pitch of the tones, its representation on a five-level scale is
Standard_Chinese_phonology
Position of a musical note on a scale relative to the tonic
instance, the 7-tone diatonic scale may become the major scale once the proper degree has been chosen as tonic (e.g. the C-major scale C–D–E–F–G–A–B, in
Degree_(music)
Concert band music
reaches its peak. At this point, the band plays a rapid descending whole tone scale starting in the highest voices and ending in the lowest. The variation
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Variations_on_a_Korean_Folk_Song
Terms in music theory to characterize scales
Chromatic most often refers to structures derived from the chromatic scale in 12-tone equal temperament, which consists of all semitones. Historically, however
Diatonic_and_chromatic
Triad of scale patterns in music theory
the major scale. The tonic chord (A–C–E) is minor, as are the subdominant (D–F–A) and dominant chords (E–G–B). The absence of the leading tone made composing
Minor_scale
Musical scale
parallel major scale by one semitone. Because of this construction, the 7th degree of the harmonic minor scale functions as a leading tone to the tonic
Harmonic_minor_scale
Japanese organ-violin duo
music", specifically just intonation in the form of Harry Partch's 43-tone scale. Nishida studied Arabic style violin with Abdo Dagir. The group's 2003
Syzygys_(band)
Six-note synthetic chord that appears in compositions by Alexander Scriabin
the chord is a whole tone scale with one note raised a semitone (the "almost whole-tone" hexachord, sometimes called "whole tone-plus"), and this alteration
Mystic_chord
Light tan or brownish human skin tone
human skin tone, roughly corresponding to Types III, IV, and V on the Fitzpatrick scale of pigmentation. The term describes lighter brown tones with greenish
Olive_skin
Terms for tuning an instrument and a systems of pitches
scale Harry Partch's 43-tone scale Bohlen–Pierce scale Alpha, beta, delta, and gamma scales of Wendy Carlos Quarter tone scale Thirteenth Sound 19 equal
Musical_tuning
Perceived tones when real tones are sounded
combination tone (also called resultant tone or subjective tone) is a psychoacoustic and sometimes physical phenomenon of an additional tone or tones that are
Combination_tone
Type of musical chord
Neapolitan major scale, such as the major Locrian scale, the leading whole-tone scale, and the Lydian minor scale. Dominant seventh flat five chords for a guitar
Dominant seventh flat five chord
Dominant_seventh_flat_five_chord
Dense musical chord
A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. Prototypical tone clusters are based on the chromatic scale and
Tone_cluster
LGBTQ topics in Scientology
Prediction of Human Behavior, where he introduced the concept of the "tone scale", a means of classifying individuals and human behavior on a chart running
Scientology_and_homosexuality
Musical interval
tones. For instance, the interval from F to the B above it (in short, F–B) is a tritone as it can be decomposed into the three adjacent whole tones F–G
Tritone
Movement in Western classical music
often shifted parallel. In the melodic field the whole tone scale, the pentatonic and modal scales were used. The melodics were characterized by their circular
Impressionism_in_music
Photographic color space developed by Kodak
chosen in order to minimize hue rotations associated with non-linear tone scale operations. One of the downsides to this color space is that approximately
ProPhoto_RGB_color_space
Musical chord
dominant seventh and may use the whole tone scale, as may the dominant seventh flat five chord. See chord-scale system. The augmented seventh chord normally
Augmented_seventh_chord
Lebanese historian
Ottoman Syria and the "virtual founder of the twenty-four equal quarter tone scale". His memoir of the 1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus civil war is valuable
Mikhail_Mishaqa
American composer (1901–1974)
composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals
Harry_Partch
American musician
Tony Scales (born June 13, 1983), known professionally as Chef Tone, is an American record producer and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. He is best known
Chef_Tone
Musical tuning system with 17 pitches equally-spaced on a logarithmic scale
remained the primary theoretical system until the development of the quarter tone scale.[citation needed] Easley Blackwood Jr. created a notation system where
17_equal_temperament
Czech music educator and composer
using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String
Alois_Hába
Musical tuning and scale
The 833 cents scale is a musical tuning and scale proposed by Heinz Bohlen[clarification needed] based on combination tones, an interval of 833.09 cents
833_cents_scale
Use of diverse music genres
composition; an example would be a composer using a whole tone scale variant of a folk song in a pentatonic scale over a chromatic counterpoint, or a tertian arpeggiating
Eclecticism_in_music
1867 symphonic poem by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
chromatic harmony and the whole-tone scale before Rimsky-Korsakov composed Sadko. Glinka had used the whole-tone scale in Ruslan and Lyudmila as the leitmotif
Sadko_(musical_tableau)
Authentic Gregorian mode
based on a scale or octave species built from a tetrachord which, in its diatonic genus, consisted of a series of rising intervals of a whole tone, followed
Phrygian_mode
Note sung or played at a slightly different pitch than standard
the 12-tone equal temperament cents system. Just intonation is common in music of other cultures such as the 17-tone Arabic scale and the 22-tone Indian
Blue_note
Harmonic grouping of notes
common chord has three notes and is known as a triad. Added tone chords, extended chords, and tone clusters can have more than three notes and are common in
Chord_(music)
Musical interval unit
compare the scales employed, and further described and utilized the system in his 1875 edition of Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone. It has
Cent_(music)
Series of four notes separated by three intervals
(approx. 498 cents)—but in modern use it means any four-note segment of a scale or tone row, not necessarily related to a particular tuning system. Three modal
Tetrachord
Symphonic poem by Antonín Dvořák
for which Dvořák uses as well the Russian device of a descending whole tone scale and the diabolic delight of the water goblin. The Water Goblin is scored
The_Water_Goblin
Overview of ancient Greek music theory
The earliest Greek scales were organized in tetrachords, which were series of four descending tones, with the top and bottom tones being separated by
Musical system of ancient Greece
Musical_system_of_ancient_Greece
Musical mode
the temperament differs by small amounts. Placing the single tone at the bottom of the scale followed by two conjunct tetrachords (that is, the top note
Dorian_mode
Mode in Arabic music
heptatonic tone rows or scales of maqamat. These are constructed from augmented, major, neutral, and minor seconds. Each maqam is built on a scale, and carries
Arabic_maqam
Sundanese musical instrument made of bamboo
gamelan angklung are tuned to a 5-tone slendro scale, although most ensembles use a four-tone mode of the five-tone scale played on instruments with four
Angklung
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