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whole-tone scale
[ hohl-tohn ]
noun
, Music.
- a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C.
whole-tone scale
noun
- either of two scales produced by commencing on one of any two notes a chromatic semitone apart and proceeding upwards or downwards in whole tones for an octave. Such a scale, consisting of six degrees to the octave, is used by Debussy and subsequent composers
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They form a refinement in chromatics based, as at present appears, on the whole-tone scale.
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If strictly logical terminology is to be insisted upon the whole-tone scale should be called the "whole-step" scale.
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