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MUSICAL SCALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
Synonyms:
musical scale; scale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
