Scales and Intervals
Musical scales tend to be fairly equally spaced tetratonic, pentatonic, or rarely hexatonic or heptatonic scales with occasional major seconds and rare minor seconds. (Nettl, 1989, p. 43)
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Famous quotes containing the words scales and, scales and/or intervals:
“In what camera do you taste
Poison, in what darkness set
Glittering scales and point
The tipping tongue?”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)