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Eytan Agmon [18] locates one in Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata K. 319. In the following passage, according to Richard Taruskin, [19] "its descending whole-step/half-step bass progression is complete and continuous". Scarlatti Sonata K319, bars 62–80 Scarlatti's Sonata K. 319, bars 62–80
Sometimes called the octatonic scale because it contains eight tones, the diminished scale is composed of a series of alternating half and whole steps. There are two types of diminished scales, one starts with a half step and the other starts with a whole step. The two scales are modes of one another.
Illustration of Riemann's "dualist" system: minor as upside down major. Half-steps are indicated by slur marks, other notes are separated by whole steps. The descending melodic minor scale shown has the same order of half steps and whole steps as the ascending major scale.
For example, C to D (major second) is a step, whereas C to E (major third) is a skip. More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval with the categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the tuning system and the pitch space used.
The pattern of whole and half steps characteristic of a major scale. The intervals from the tonic (keynote) in an upward direction to the second, to the third, to the sixth, and to the seventh scale degrees of a major scale are called major. [1] A major scale is a diatonic scale. The sequence of intervals between the notes of a major scale is:
Minor tone (10:9) Play ⓘ. In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones (Play ⓘ).A second is a musical interval encompassing two adjacent staff positions (see Interval number for more details).
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In music theory a diatonic scale is a heptatonic (seven-note) 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. In other words, the half steps are maximally separated from each other.