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Chromatic scale, the Glossary

The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.^[1]

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Chromaticism
Hemitonic scales
Musical scales
Musical symmetry
Post-tonal music theory

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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Allen Forte

Allen Forte (December 23, 1926 – October 16, 2014) was an American music theorist and musicologist.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Chromatic scale and Atonality are post-tonal music theory.

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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. Chromatic scale and Chromaticism are musical scales.

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Degree (music)

In music theory, the scale degree is 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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In music theory, a diatonic scale is any 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 equivalence

In music, two written notes have enharmonic equivalence if they produce the same pitch but are notated differently.

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Flat (music)

In music, flat means lower in pitch.

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Frequency

Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.

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Inversion (music)

In music theory, an inversion is a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music. Chromatic scale and inversion (music) are musical symmetry.

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Joseph Needham

Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor may describe an interval, chord, scale, or key. Chromatic scale and major and minor are musical scales.

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Microtone (music)

Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". Chromatic scale and microtone (music) are post-tonal music theory.

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Modular arithmetic

In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus.

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Music of China

The music of China consists of many distinct traditions, often specifically originating with one of the country's various ethnic groups.

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Music theory

Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.

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Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered 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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Pitch class

In music, a pitch class (p.c. or pc) is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart; for example, the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves.

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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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Roger Kamien

Roger Kamien (born 1934) is a retired professor emeritus of musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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Scale (music)

In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency. Chromatic scale and scale (music) are musical scales.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a minor second, 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, in English sharp – eqv.

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Shi'er lü

Shi'er lü (十二律|p. Chromatic scale and Shi'er lü are Chromaticism and musical scales.

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Solfège

In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a mnemonic used in teaching aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music.

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Symmetric scale

In music, a music scale can have certain symmetries, namely translational symmetry and inversional or mirror symmetry. Chromatic scale and symmetric scale are musical symmetry.

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Syntonic comma

In music theory, the syntonic comma, also known as the chromatic diesis, the Didymean comma, 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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Tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.

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Tone row

In music, a tone row or note row (Reihe or Tonreihe), also series or set, is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found. Chromatic scale and tone row are musical symmetry.

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Tonic (music)

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the 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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Transposition (music)

In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Twelve-tone technique

The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

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12 equal temperament

12 equal temperament (12-ET) is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).

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17 equal temperament

In music, 17 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"), 19-ED2 ("Equal Division of 2:1) 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

Also known as 12-tone scale, C scale, Chromatic (music), Chromatic music, Chromatic musical scale, Chromatic universe, Full chromatic, Ptolemy's intense chromatic scale, Twelve tone scale, Twelve-tone scale.

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See also

Chromaticism

Hemitonic scales

Musical scales

Musical symmetry

Post-tonal music theory

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