There are many types of button accordions, usually with the buttons arranged in diatonic rows. From Wordnik.com. [Vivaldi - Performed on an Accordion » E-Mail] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The diatonic chord substitution. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2009] Reference
Their song now lifts, scatters along a diatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Scale from Seven (7) diatonic up to twelve (12) chromatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It is tied to the diatonic scale used by Plato in the Timaeus. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
All progressions must be diatonic, and parts should not cross. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons] Reference
There are eight tones in the diatonic scale, five in the pentatonic. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
Accidentals don't overlap with any letters, so everything's diatonic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
'The semitone and the whole tone are the building blocks of the diatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
First, why does Archytas reject the Pythagorean diatonic used by Philolaus and Plato?. From Wordnik.com. [Archytas] Reference
The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
This chord is constructed on the 5th of the diatonic as a fundamental note, and consists of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In the diatonic, the distance between the intervals is easier to understand, because it is natural. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
In west Africa and south Africa, it is not diatonic, seven tones, it is pentatonic with five tones. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008] Reference
Fragment 6a suggests that Philolaus saw the cosmos as put together according to the diatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [Philolaus] Reference
In the diatonic, there are two consecutive tones, and the third interval of a semitone completes the tetrachord. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The closest I can think of to a major diatonic microtonalist is Terry Riley, and I'd have to heavily qualify that. From Wordnik.com. [Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements] Reference
The diatonic scale in music, determined by calculation and actual experiment on vibrating chords, stands as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
This series, of which the intervals are afterwards filled up, probably represents (1) the diatonic scale according to the. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
Occasionally it is introduced in diatonic melody as an appropriate emphatic mode of uttering a single word; as, for example. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
We used to think for instance that in music the ordinary diatonic major scale, with its variant minor, was a fact of nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
There are three classes of modes: first, that which the Greeks term the enharmonic; second, the chromatic; third, the diatonic. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
It gives only the natural sounds of the diatonic gamut, and in order to obtain changes of modulation, the pedals must be employed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
I play the guitar and am a big time harmonica player, both diatonic Blues, diatonic melodies and harmonies, and ... the chromatic harp. From Wordnik.com. [Neocons Just Can't Multiply!] Reference
The first, third and fifth tones in the diatonic scale are the building blocks of root chords, the formula for perfection, for beauty. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
This scale is known as the Pythagorean diatonic and is the scale that Plato adopted in the construction of the world soul in the Timaeus. From Wordnik.com. [Archytas] Reference
There's a common myth that just intonationists are attracted to JI by a love of pure harmonies, and therefore write simply diatonic music. From Wordnik.com. [Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements] Reference
The notes do not form any known diatonic scale, for in addition to the C and F being too sharp, the notes are not strictly in tune with each other. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
And just as the compass of all instruments is constructed on the diatonic scale, so should the range of the palette depend upon the tinges of the spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The tones of the scale are divided into quarters, and the number of quarters in the diatonic scale intervals is four, three, two, four, four, three, and two. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
The latter, the basis of Chinese music, correspond to the black keys of our piano, while the former were equivalent to the white, or diatonic, notes of our scale. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
With substantially two octaves of the diatonic scale the world's melodies have been sounded, nor do any doubt that our successors will thrill to airs that we have never heard. From Wordnik.com. [The Classification of Patents] Reference
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