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GAPPED SCALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A musical scale with fewer than seven notes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gapped scale" is a kind of...):
musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gapped scale"):
pentatone; pentatonic scale (a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted)
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