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- A ditonic scale is a musical scale or mode with two notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and...
- comma (531441:524288) on C In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras...
- interval equivalent to two tones. It yields the English words ditone and ditonic (see Pythagorean comma), but it is quite distinct from διάτονος. The Byzantine...
- as the "black note" scale Tetratonic (4 notes), tritonic (3 notes), and ditonic (2 notes): generally limited to prehistoric ("primitive") music Scales...
- (4:1)—and so on. Standard diatonic Pythagorean tuning (Ptolemy's Diatonic Ditonic) is easily derived starting from superparticular ratios, (n+1)/n, constructed...
- the hemitonic in scale.) Hemitonic pentatonic scales are also called "ditonic scales", because the largest interval in them is the ditone (e.g., in the...
- one repeated phrase and many of their scales only two to three notes (ditonic or tritonic). This style was carried to the Great Plains by the Ghost Dance...
- Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Bohlen–Pierce Modes Number of tones Monotonic (1) Ditonic (2) Tritonic (3) Tetratonic (4) Pentatonic (5) Hexatonic (6) Heptatonic...
- {\displaystyle {\bigl (}2{\bigr )}^{\tfrac {\ 1\ }{53}}} Pythagorean comma (κ𝜋) ditonic comma aug1 − min2 (in Pythagorean tuning) 12 perfect fifths 7 octaves 23...
- common were tritonic (3-note) scales at 47%, while the third-most was ditonic (two-note) scales at 17%. Tetratonic music was noted as common in Polynesia...