NOUN
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
How To Use musical scale In A Sentence
- In every type of musical scale, the notes progress in a series of intervals from a keynote to the octave above or below.
- For example, the leading tone, the seventh note of the musical scale, known as ti (doh re me fa so la ti… doh) predicts or refers to the tonic, doh.
- Male and female campers spent time on solfege, a sight-reading method that pairs a hand sign or number to each note of the musical scale - the syllables are the "do, re, mi" made famous in the musical DentonRC.com Local News
- These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.
- About one third of jazz is in blues form with twelve measures4 in a song and uses ---blue notes,"the flatted third, fifth, and seventh notes of the musical scale.
- These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.
- This allowed him to correlate the intervals of the musical scale with simple numerical ratios.
- A six-story-high microtonal xylophone that can produce smaller intervals between achievable tones than are heard when playing conventional Western musical scales. George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips!
- 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.
- I hated playing musical scales and those stupid nursery rhymes set to music that piano students had to play, but I guess Dad marked me down as a loser in music, too.
