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  2. Enharmonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek meaning of enharmonic is that the scale contains at least one very narrow interval. (The spacing of each pair notes between their bracketing fixed notes is usually either approximately or exactly the same, so when there is one narrow interval in one bracket there is almost always another one inside the other bracket.) [4] Modern musical vocabulary has re-used the word ...

  3. Enharmonic equivalence - Wikipedia

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    A musical passage notated as flats. The same passage notated as sharps, requiring fewer canceling natural signs. Sets of notes that involve pitch relationships — scales, key signatures, or intervals, [1] for example — can also be referred to as enharmonic (e.g., the keys of C ♯ major and D ♭ major contain identical pitches and are therefore enharmonic).

  4. Pythagorean comma - Wikipedia

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    Disregarding this difference leads to enharmonic change ^ The 7 ♭ and 5 ♯ , respectively 5 ♭ and 7 ♯ scales differ in the same way by one Pythagorean comma. Scales with seven accidentals are seldom used, [ 5 ] because the enharmonic scales with five accidentals are treated as equivalent.

  5. Double harmonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The double harmonic major scale [1] is a musical scale with a flattened second and sixth degree. This scale is enharmonic to the Mayamalavagowla raga, Bhairav raga, Byzantine scale, Arabic scale (Hijaz Kar), [1] [2] and Gypsy major scale. [3] It can be likened to a gypsy scale because of the diminished step between the 1st and 2nd degrees.

  6. Microtonality - Wikipedia

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    Microtonality is the use in music of microtones — intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.

  7. Diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    Diminished seventh chords may also be rooted on scale degrees other than the leading-tone, either as secondary function chords temporarily borrowed from other keys, or as appoggiatura chords: a chord rooted on the raised second scale degree (D ♯ –F ♯ –A–C in the key of C) acts as an appoggiatura to the tonic (C major) chord, and one ...

  8. Augmented fifth - Wikipedia

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    Augmented fifth on C. In Western classical music, an augmented fifth (Play ⓘ) is an interval produced by widening a perfect fifth by a chromatic semitone. [1] [3] For instance, the interval from C to G is a perfect fifth, seven semitones wide, and both the intervals from C ♭ to G, and from C to G ♯ are augmented fifths, spanning eight semitones.

  9. Genus (music) - Wikipedia

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    The double-flat symbol is used for modern notation of the third tone in the tetrachord to follow modern convention of keeping scale notes as a letter sequence, and to remind the reader that the third tone in an enharmonic tetrachord (say F, shown above) was not tuned quite the same as the second note in a diatonic or chromatic scale (the ...