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  2. Octave - Wikipedia

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    Notes separated by an octave "ring" together, adding a pleasing sound to music. The interval is so natural to humans that when men and women are asked to sing in unison, they typically sing in octave. [6] For this reason, notes an octave apart are given the same note name in the Western system of music notation—the name of a note an octave ...

  3. A Bushel and a Peck - Wikipedia

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    "A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, [1] which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950. It was performed on stage by Vivian Blaine and a women's chorus as a nightclub act at the Hot Box. It is the first of two ...

  4. Rule of the octave - Wikipedia

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    The rule of the octave is a way of harmonizing each note of the diatonic scale, reflecting common practice, and has its origin in the practice of thorough bass, or basso continuo, where it provided an easy way to find which chord could accompany each note of the scale in the bass, particularly in the absence of figuring.

  5. Scale (music) - Wikipedia

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    Octatonic (8 notes per octave): used in jazz and modern classical music; Heptatonic (7 notes per octave): the most common modern Western 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 ...

  6. Heptatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    A diatonic scale is any seven-note scale constructed sequentially using only whole tones and half tones, repeating at the octave, having a tonal center, and comprising only one tritone interval between any two scale members, which ensures that the half tone intervals are as far apart as possible.

  7. List of pitch intervals - Wikipedia

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    Comparison between tunings: Pythagorean, equal-tempered, quarter-comma meantone, and others.For each, the common origin is arbitrarily chosen as C. The degrees are arranged in the order or the cycle of fifths; as in each of these tunings except just intonation all fifths are of the same size, the tunings appear as straight lines, the slope indicating the relative tempering with respect to ...

  8. Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as octave scales divided into seven to thirteen intervals.

  9. Dyad (music) - Wikipedia

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    All dyads within an octave on C. Play ⓘ In music, a dyad (less commonly, diad) is a set of two notes or pitches. [1] The notes of a dyad can be played simultaneously or in succession. Notes played in succession form a melodic interval; notes played simultaneously form a harmonic interval. Dyads can be classified by the interval between the ...

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