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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales. The terms are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony. They are very often used as a pair, especially when applied to contrasting features of the common practice music of the period 1600–1900.

These terms may mean different things in different contexts. Very often, ''diatonic'' refers to musical elements derived from the modes and transpositions of the "white note scale" C–D–E–F–G–A–B. In some usages it includes all forms of heptatonic scale that are in common use in Western music (the major, and all forms of the minor).

''Chromatic'' most often refers to structures derived from the chromatic scale in 12-tone equal temperament, which consists of all semitones. Historically, however, it had other senses, referring in Ancient Greek music theory to a particular tuning of the tetrachord, and to a rhythmic notational convention in mensural music of the 14th to 16th centuries. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Shore, James
    Published 2012
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    by Chromatic
    Published 2012
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    by Chromatic
    Published 2007
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    by Chromatic
    Published 2006
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    by Langworth, Ian
    Published 2005
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    by Chromatic
    Published 2003
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    by Chromatic
    Published 2002
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    Published 1960
    “…International Symposium on the Fundamental Mechanisms of the Chromatic Discrimination in Animals and Man Paris, France…”
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