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  2. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations [ 2 ] and are still used in various musical styles to this day.

  3. Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin) - Wikipedia

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    Étude Op. 10, No. 5 is known as the "Black Key Étude" as its right-hand part is entirely on black keys, except for one note. Leichtentritt states that the melodic character resulting from the use of black keys is "based on the pentatonic scale to which the piece owes its strangely playful, attractively primitive tint."

  4. Category:Pentatonic scales - Wikipedia

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  5. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    scale notes implied pentatonic scale: implied classical Chinese scale: 3 6 ··· suspended pentatonic scale: 商 (shāng) mode (self-dual) 3 7 ··· blues major pentatonic scale: 徵 (zhǐ) mode 2 6 ··· minor pentatonic scale: 羽 (yǔ) mode 4 7 ♯3: major pentatonic scale: 宮 (gōng) mode 2 5 ♭6: blues minor pentatonic scale 角 (jué ...

  6. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...

  7. Japanese mode - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music.The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to ...

  8. Ritsu and ryo scales - Wikipedia

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    The ritsu scales do not fit exactly into the equal temperament prominent in Western classical music but ritsu is transposable to E and B, Ryo is transposable to D and G, and Hanryo hanritsu to A. [7] The Ritsu scale is one of the six scales (along with the major and minor scales, the common pentatonic scale, and the common "blues" scale) that ...

  9. Guqin tunings - Wikipedia

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    In qin music, if one examines the modes and scales, one can often find many pitches beyond a pentatonic scale. Examples include pieces like "Shenren Chang" [Harmony Between Gods and Men] which uses a lot of "strange" notes not much heard in modern Chinese music.