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In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Famous examples include the whole-tone scale, ...
Hexatonic (6 notes per octave): common in Western folk music; Pentatonic (5 notes per octave): the anhemitonic form (lacking semitones) is common in folk music, especially in Asian music; also known as the "black note" scale; Tetratonic (4 notes), tritonic (3 notes), and ditonic (2 notes): generally limited to prehistoric ("primitive") music
Art museums associated with colleges or universities have organized a College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program (CUAMRP, previously called the Academic Art Museum Reciprocal Membership program). [12] [13] [14] A participating museum may receive benefits that can outweigh a potential reduction in direct admissions fees.
Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia. A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits.
Kids under three get free admission at the Museum of the Moving Image—and all other visitors can score free general admission every Thursday between 2 and 6 p.m. (with reservations required).
The majority of government-funded museums stopped charging admission fees in 2001 [37] and, although this was challenged in 2007, [38] this has remained the case. Following the removal of admission charges, attendances at London museums increased, with a large percentage of the 42 million annual visitors nationwide.
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
On 26 June 1909 the Science Museum, as an independent entity, came into existence. [4] The Science Museum's present quarters, designed by Sir Richard Allison, were opened to the public in stages over the period 1919–28. [5] This building was known as the East Block, construction of which began in 1913 and was temporarily halted by World War I.