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MUSICAL SCALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does musical scale mean?
• MUSICAL SCALE (noun)
The noun MUSICAL SCALE has 1 sense:
1. (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
Familiarity information: MUSICAL SCALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
musical scale; scale
Hypernyms ("musical scale" is a kind of...):
musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)
Meronyms (members of "musical scale"):
musical note; note; tone (a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical scale"):
gamut (the entire scale of musical notes)
diatonic scale (a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones)
chromatic scale (a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave)
gapped scale (a musical scale with fewer than seven notes)
Context examples
I take the spectrum and I, essentially, mathematically resample that to a musical scale and that gives that spectrum, which is inherently atonal, it gives it the tonality.
(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)
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