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Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.

Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale..

Change :: Change (v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale..

Platonic :: Platonic (a.) Alt. of Platonica.

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..

Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

Platonically :: Platonically (adv.) In a Platonic manner.

Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions..

Peal :: Peal (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells..

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable..

H :: H () The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) 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.

Fa :: Fa (n.) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.

Surd :: Surd (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180..

Plotinist :: Plotinist (n.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death..

Diatonic :: Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first..

Sol :: Sol (n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale..

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