How To Use Diatonic In A Sentence
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They are both scales of seven: the tonic, mediant, and dominant, find their types in red, yellow, and blue, while the modifications on which the diatonic scale is constructed, resemble, numerically and esthetically, the well-known variations in the spectrum.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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In music, India gave to the world her system of notation, with the seven cardinal notes and the diatonic scale, all of which we enjoyed as early as 350 B.C., while it came to Europe only in the eleventh century.
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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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A graphic demonstration of the research of Dale Purves et al in the diatonic formant components in human vowel sounds; the reason the audience can intuitively follow the pentatonic scale is because they use this discernment every time they use a vowel.
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo
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Now, the diapason is the ad interium, or interval betwixt and between the extremes of an octave, according to the diatonic scale.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
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The _mordent_ [mordent symbol] consists of three tones; first the one represented by the printed note; second the one next below it in the diatonic scale; third the one represented by the printed note again.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Tonic Sol-fa is thus a system of aural training, and, once beginners have become familiar with the sol-fa syllables, they should be able to pitch the notes of a simple diatonic tune.
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These consorts show a rich vein of imagination, contrasting polyphony with homophony, and simple diatonic with chromatic passages, so that the contrapuntal devices act as a backdrop to the expression of intimate, fluctuating emotions.
Archive 2009-05-01
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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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One of the weaknesses of much pre-Classic music is the prevalence of bland diatonic harmony.
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What is called lichanos in the enharmonic is at the interval of a semitone from hypate; but when shifted to the chromatic, it goes two semitones away; and in the diatonic it is at an interval of three semitones from hypate.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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The angélique flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth, although Praetorius mentions a plucked-string instrument with a neck, also tuned in diatonic seconds in 1612.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Remove the fourth and seventh scale degrees from the familiar "do-re-mi" diatonic scale — or F and B — and you will reach the same C D E G A sequence.
Amazing grace, in the key of black
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The modulator work must now include free leaps to and from any tone of the major diatonic scale (that is to say, the tones of the Doh, Soh and Fah chords).
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Archytas influenced the Sectio Canonis, since Proposition 3 is based on a proof by Archytas (A19), but the treatise cannot be by Archytas, because its theory of pitch and its account of the diatonic and enharmonic tetrachords differ from those of Archytas.
Archytas
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Medieval diatonicism, which did not include the principle of octave equivalence, was codified by Guido of Arezzo in the early 11th century: it acknowledged notes from G to e, arranged in seven overlapping hexachords.
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As Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist exercises strengthen the fingers through varying linear progressions, Jazz Chord Hanon moves sequentially through diatonic and chromatic scales and progressions from three through five voices.
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Over two massive sections - with the second encompassing an evocative slow movement and a dramatic finale - the argument is based on two contrasted motifs that, with satisfying logic, resolve at the end in a warmly diatonic melody.
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There is no doubt that the pentatonic is the musical scale of all Malaysia, and probably of all China; and none also that the diatonic, almost universal in Europe, is the musical scale of portions of India.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
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First we will deal with diatonic and chromatic substitution notes, which are the main means of obscuring conventional chords.
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The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
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One genus was called the diatonic; one example of this is the Pythagorean diatonic described above, which is built on the tetrachord with the intervals 9: 8, 9: 8 and 256: 243 and was used by Philolaus and Plato.
Archytas
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Despite brief experiments with twelve-tone writing in the 1940s and 1950s, her music rarely ventures beyond extended tonality, emphasizing coloristic harmony and diatonic dissonance.
Marion Eug��nie Bauer.
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Is it mainly diatonic or chromatic?
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There is no doubt that Archytas knew of this diatonic scale, but his own diatonic tetrachord was somewhat different, being composed of the intervals 9: 8, 8: 7 and 28:
Archytas
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There is dissonance, beautiful dissonance, mixed with more diatonic harmony.
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This treatise began with a discussion of the basic principles of acoustics (B1), defined the three types of mean which are of importance in music theory (B2), and went on to present Archytas 'mathematical descriptions of the tetrachord (the fourth) in the three main genera (chromatic, diatonic, and enharmonic - A16-A19).
Archytas
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There is little dramatic impulse, but, especially when sung in German, the solo music is reminiscent of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in its simple direct melody and clear diatonic harmony.
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The ratios in Archytas 'diatonic and enharmonic tetrachords are indeed superparticular, but two of the ratios in his chromatic tetrachord are not superparticular (32: 27 and 243: 224).
Archytas
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The octave being always divided into five tones and two limmas [diatonic semitones]; by increasing the tones equally … the difference between the major and minor limma will be contracted to nothing, which … annihilates all the false consonances.
Why are minor keys in music sad?
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Today, the tambour has found its rightful place, a typical orchestra is made up of a tambour and a diatonic accordion, complemented by some percussion instruments: triangle, drum sticks, objects filled with grains producing a sound close to the maracas and empty tinned cans that are rubbed or struck.
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The seventh tone in diatonic scale in solfeggio.
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This treatise began with a discussion of the basic principles of acoustics (B1), defined the three types of mean which are of importance in music theory (B2), and went on to present Archytas 'mathematical descriptions of the tetrachord (the fourth) in the three main genera (chromatic, diatonic, and enharmonic - A16-A19).
Archytas
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Now, with my own lips, I have played notes from Subterranean flutes twenty-five thousand years old standard diatonic to heptatonic, including a flatted la and a neutral third for mi, i.e., a blue note.
Deeper
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The use of the diatonic genus is also apropriate for an ethos of moderation because it avoids the more extreme emotions assiciated with the chromatic and enharmonic genera.
Archive 2009-04-01
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I would be curious to know whether composers who work with just intonation came to it through diatonicism and then realized how cool it would be to adapt it to chromaticism, or whether they were chromatic from the start and just continually dissatisfied with the equal-tempered results.
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements
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There are three classes of modes: first, that which the Greeks term the enharmonic; second, the chromatic; third, the diatonic.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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The ratios in Archytas 'diatonic and enharmonic tetrachords are indeed superparticular, but two of the ratios in his chromatic tetrachord are not superparticular (32: 27 and 243: 224).
Archytas
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What is called lichanos in the enharmonic is at the interval of a semitone from hypate; but when shifted to the chromatic, it goes two semitones away; and in the diatonic it is at an interval of three semitones from hypate.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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So although the lyrics are in Spanish, and there is an accordion in there, these are not corridos, and the accordion is not diatonic, nor is it playing conjunto riffs.
Michal Shapiro: Pistolera: Taking Life by the Teeth
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'They were christened from the Greek diatonic scale, and make up two conjunct tetrachords, if you know what that means.'
Gryll Grange
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We have already remarked that the current medieval theory laid down for the tone system a heptatonic diatonic scale of about two octaves with the addition of b flat in the higher octave.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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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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The fingering indicated is performed easily by a student with modest hand size and capitalizes on diatonic scale patterns.
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One of the weaknesses of much pre-Classic music is the prevalence of bland diatonic harmony.
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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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Like the diatonic scale, it may begin on any degree.
