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Chromatic scale

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The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches. [1]

29 relations: All Through the Night (Cole Porter song), Atonality, Cent (music), Chromaticism, Degree (music), Diatonic scale, Enharmonic, Equal temperament, Flat (music), Hicaz Hümâyun Saz Semâisi, Just intonation, Major and minor, Music of China, Music of India, Musical tuning, Pitch (music), Pythagorean tuning, Scale (music), Semitone, Sharp (music), Shí-èr-lǜ, Solfège, Svara, Symmetric scale, Syntonic comma, Tonic (music), Twelve-tone technique, 17 equal temperament, 19 equal temperament.

All Through the Night (Cole Porter song)

"All Through the Night" is a 1934 popular song written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical Anything Goes.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Cent (music)

The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals.

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Chromaticism

Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale.

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Degree (music)

In music theory, scale degree refers to the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic, the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.

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Diatonic scale

In western music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.

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Enharmonic

In modern musical notation and tuning, an enharmonic equivalent is a note, interval, or key signature that is equivalent to some other note, interval, or key signature but "spelled", or named differently.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.

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Flat (music)

In music, flat or bemolle (Italian: "soft B") means "lower in pitch".

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Hicaz Hümâyun Saz Semâisi

"Hicaz Hümâyun Saz Semâisi" is a piece of music written by Neyzen Yusuf Paşa (1820-1884) that demonstrates the many ways in which Turkish music and European music differ.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation (sometimes abbreviated as JI) or pure intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers.

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Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.

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Music of China

Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities within mainland China.

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Music of India

The music of India includes multiple varieties of classical music, folk music, filmi, Indian rock and Indian pop.

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Pythagorean tuning

Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are based on the ratio 3:2.

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Scale (music)

In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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Sharp (music)

In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch.

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Shí-èr-lǜ

Shí-èr-lǜ (12 pitches) (twelve-pitch scale) was a standardized gamut of twelve notes.

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Solfège

In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing of Western music.

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Svara

Swara (Hindi स्वर), also spelled swara, is a Sanskrit word that connotes a note in the successive steps of the octave.

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Symmetric scale

In music, a symmetric scale is a music scale which equally divides the octave.

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Syntonic comma

In music theory, the syntonic comma, also known as the chromatic diesis, the comma of Didymus, the Ptolemaic comma, or the diatonic comma is a small comma type interval between two musical notes, equal to the frequency ratio 81:80 (.

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Tonic (music)

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music and traditional music.

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Twelve-tone technique

Twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and associated with the "Second Viennese School" composers, who were the primary users of the technique in the first decades of its existence.

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17 equal temperament

In music, 17 tone equal temperament is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 17 equal steps (equal frequency ratios).

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19 equal temperament

In music, 19 equal temperament, called 19 TET, 19 EDO ("Equal Division of the Octave"), or 19 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 19 equal steps (equal frequency ratios).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale

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