MUSICAL SCALE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

Synonyms:

musical scale; scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("musical scale" is a kind of...):

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Meronyms (members of "musical scale"):

musical note; note; tone (a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical scale"):

gamut (the entire scale of musical notes)

diatonic scale (a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones)

chromatic scale (a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave)

gapped scale (a musical scale with fewer than seven notes)