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2. Steps and skips - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Resolution (music) - Wikipedia

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   One common tone, two notes move by half step motion, and one note moves by whole step motion. Resolution in Western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one). Dissonance, resolution, and suspense can be used to create musical interest.

4. Semitone - Wikipedia

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   It is defined as the interval between two adjacent notes in a 12-tone scale (or half of a whole step), visually seen on a keyboard as the distance between two keys that are adjacent to each other. For example, C is adjacent to C ♯ ; the interval between them is a semitone.

5. Hungarian minor scale - Wikipedia

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   It is a symmetrical scale with a slightly ambiguous tonal centre, due to the many half steps. Its step pattern is W, H, +, H, H, +, H, where W indicates a whole step , H indicates a half step , and + indicates an augmented second (three half steps, enharmonically equivalent to a minor third but functionally distinct).

6. All fifths tuning - Wikipedia

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   which have intervals of 3 octaves minus a half-step between the lowest and highest string. The conventional tuning has an interval of 2 octaves between lowest and highest string. All-fifths tuning is a tuning in intervals of perfect fifths like that of a mandolin or a violin. It has a wide range. It was used by jazz guitarist Carl Kress in the form

7. Major scale - Wikipedia

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   The ratio is 3/2 = 1.5 for a perfect fifth, for example from C to G on a major scale, and 5/4 = 1.25 for a major third, for example from C to E. A major scale may be seen as two identical tetrachords separated by a whole tone. Each tetrachord consists of two whole tones followed by a semitone (i.e. whole, whole, half). The major scale is ...

8. Hexatonic scale - Wikipedia

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   It is primarily associated with the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, who used it in such pieces of his as Voiles and Le vent dans la plaine, both from his first book of piano Préludes. This whole-tone scale has appeared occasionally and sporadically in jazz at least since Bix Beiderbecke 's impressionistic piano piece In a Mist .

9. Double harmonic scale - Wikipedia

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   The scale contains a built-in tritone substitution, a dominant seventh chord a half step above the root, with strong harmonic movement towards the tonic chord. The double harmonic scale is not commonly used in classical music from Western culture , as it does not closely follow any of the basic musical modes , nor is it easily derived from them.