The diatonic chords and combinations in which Händel found an ever complete satisfaction are not sufficient for Bach, and we find continually new chords, evasive cadences, and a flowing continuity of thought belonging to the master mind.
His melodies move easily, now within the diatonic mode, and now in the chromatic, but generally, within the limits of each period, in the diatonic mode.
Händel had all his life a predilection for diatonic tonality, and it is very rarely indeed that he deals with the chromatic at all, and never with the enharmonic.
No one who has ever heard it can forget the last page: the innocent diatonic opening of the melody, and the abrupt, bewildering change which follows in its second bar.
His method is totally different from that of chromatic writers like Grieg and Chopin, for Grieg uses the effects as isolated points of colour, and Chopin embroiders them, mainly as appoggiaturas, on a basis of diatonic harmony.
Illustration: real sounds] The actual tonality of the clarinet is determined by the diatonic scale produced when, starting with keys untouched and finger and thumb-holes closed, the fingers are raised one by one from the holes.
The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural.
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
An interval embracing seven diatonicdegrees of the scale.
Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.
The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio.
The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale.
A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.
Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonicscale in solmization.
The diatonic scale in music, determined by calculation and actual experiment on vibrating chords, stands as follows.
And just as the compass of all instruments is constructed on the diatonic scale, so should the range of the palette depend upon the tinges of the spectrum.
Within this century, however, they have all been transformed from imperfect diatonic instruments to perfect chromatic instruments; that is to say, every brass instrument which is in use now can give out all the semitones within its compass.
I now present him with a form of thediatonic scale.
The right hand must play its thirds, especially the diatonicand chromatic scales, with such equality that no angularity of motion shall be noticeable where the fingers pass under or over each other.
Pioneer because in youth he had bowed to the tyranny of the diatonic scale and savored the illicit joys of the chromatic.
He makes us feel that he has not stepped outside the diatonic scale, so quick is he to seize upon the consonances common to dissonant systems and combine them to his sure purpose.
The only mammals that I can call to mind at this moment as showing any even apparent approach to an appreciation of the diatonic scale are the elephant and the rhinoceros.
Many years ago I remember thinking that the birds in New Zealand approached the diatonic scale more nearly than European birds do.
In the combination of two syllables or tetrachords the modern diatonic scales resemble the Greek so-called disjunct scale, but the Greeks knew nothing of our categorical distinctions of major and minor.
Modulation in the modern sense cannot exist in a purely diatonic scheme.
Besides various diatonic runs of an inessential and purely ornamental character, there is in the finale actually a plain and full-toned C flat major scale.
When the diatonic chords and their inversions are known the principal modulations should be studied.
When a modulation is introduced which entails a fairly long reference to a new key, the note leading directly to it is of course accidental in the first key and diatonic in the second.
Directly the children are sure of the diatonic notes of the key of C major they should take the sharpened fourth (fe), the flattened seventh (taw).
Occasionally it is introduced in diatonic melody as an appropriate emphatic mode of uttering a single word; as, for example, "Other friends have flown before; on the morrow HE will leave me.
A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Defn: A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.
Defn: The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Defn: The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural.
It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonicand chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin.
Defn: A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.
Defn: The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Defn: Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale.
On the fingerboard were placed movable frets or keys, which, on being depressed, stopped the strings, at points corresponding to the diatonic intervals of the scale.
The Diatonic Scale with Minor Seventh is likewise an Eastern scale.
Moreover, if the diatonic major scale is thus suggested by nature, the minor scale with its flat third must be more artificial, and less likely to be universally adopted.
Besides, certain deviations from the diatonic major scale, which we meet with in the music of foreign nations, possess a particular charm, which we are sure to appreciate more and more as we gradually become familiar with them.
Notwithstanding the great authority of Darwin, the musical inquirer will probably desire to ascertain for himself whether the "correct musical tones" are exactly in conformity with our diatonic and chromatic intervals.
Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Chromatic: A tone of the key which is not a member of its diatonic scale.
The symbol for each diatonic tone is the initial letter of the syllable (i.
There can be no doubt whatever that the grand groundwork of all singing is the diatonic scale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diatonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
