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	Major scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The major scale has eight notes (an octave), which in solfege are the syllables "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, and Do." At the piano keyboard, the simplest major scale is C major (see figure 1).
		It is unique in that it is the only major scale to use only the white notes on the keyboard and, likewise, no sharps or flats on the musical staff.
		When writing out major (and minor scales), every line and space on the stave has to be filled, and no note can have more than one accidental.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_scale (1027 words)

	HARMONY - LoveToKnow Article on HARMONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And by degrees the major triad, with its major 3rd, became so familiar that a chord consisting of a bare 5th, with or without an octave, was regarded rather as a skeleton triad without the 3rd than as a concord free from elements of imperfection.
		The remaining major keys (C major to E minor = F major to A minor) may be traced directly as well as conversely; and the subdominant, being minor, does not involve an appeal to the major scale at all.
		C major to Al, the submediant of C minor), because the primary tonic note is in the second key, although its chord is transformed.
	80.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HARMONY.htm (7976 words)

	Floyd Bell Piezo Alarm Tone Types
		The siren tone is well suited to high ambient noise environments where the sweeping tone, coupled with the high sound output (from 95 db to 109 db at two feet), can still be heard.
		The staccato tone is well suited to high ambient noise environments where the sweeping tone, coupled with the high sound output (from 95 db to 109 db at two feet), can still be heard.
		The beep tone alarms come in 3 loudness levels: medium (85 db to 95 db), extra loud (90 db to 104 db), and ultra loud (97 db to 109 db), all of which are measured at 2 feet (61 cm).
	www.floydbell.com /products/tonetypes.php (1216 words)

	Jaris' Music Theory Tutorial
		The intervals beyond the Octave, or 8th note in a Major or Minor scale, repeat the notes in these initial intervals, so that the 9th note is the same as the 2nd, only an octave higher; the 11th note is the same as the 4th; and the 13th the same as the 6th...
		In addition to adding the 7th tone of a scale as a 4th note in a chord, you could just as easily add the 6th or flatted sixth in combination with the major and minor 3rds and diminished and augmented chords to create another family of 8 chords.
		If the 4th tone is added to a chord, in most cases you will not play the 3rd tone and the 4th tone chord is referred to as a suspended chord or sus4.
	www.geocities.com /dreamingbones/music4.html (1036 words)

	MAJOR - Definition
		Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
		{Major scale} (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the major mode, of which the third is major.
		In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are major.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/major (518 words)

	Major Indian Pakistani scales and free keyboard lessons from Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The tone is almost twice a semitone and in modern western music is exactly twice a semitone.
		A major scale is defined by the intervals between these notes: "W W H W W W (H)", where "W" indicates a whole step and "H" a half.
		Thus, a G major scale is "G, A, B, C, D, E, F#", with a half step leading to the G that would start the next octave.
	www.geocities.com /najibvirgo/major_scales.htm (639 words)

	The Keys of Atlantis [1]
		The frequency ratio of the tone is calculated as the quotient of 2:3 (diapente) divided by 3:4 (diatessaron), and is equal to 8:9.
		Because the major 3rd is defined in just intonation by the frequency ratio 4:5, many people have mistakenly thought that the fifth harmonic is the defining principle of this interval; that the major 3rd is the transposition downward by two octaves of the fifth harmonic.
		In consequence, the interval from pitch 0 to pitch 2 (a tone) is equal to the interval from pitch 10 to pitch 12.
	www.odeion.org /atlantis/chapter-1.html (7075 words)

	A Major Problem
		The note which begins a major scale is referred to as the key of the scale.
		For example, the note F in the major key of C would transpose to the note Gb in the major key of Db since both notes occupy the same position (fourth) in their respective scales.
		An output file should be generated which indicates the transposed notes, as well as indicating major scales that are not valid and notes that are not valid in a given major scale.
	acm.uva.es /p/v5/595.html (741 words)

	Syntonic comma - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A just major third has its notes in the frequency ratio 5:4, which is equal to 386.31 cents, and one of them plus two octaves is equal to 2786.31 cents.
		In just intonation using prime factors up to 5, the syntonic comma is the ratio between the major tone of 9:8 and the minor tone of 10:9 (so is 81:80).
		In Quarter comma meantone, the major and minor tones are made equal to the square root of 5:4.
	www.free-definition.com /Syntonic-comma.html (332 words)

	Bill Alves - The Just Intonation System of Nicola Vicentino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Vicentino defines the genera with the traditional tetrachords: the diatonic consisting of some combination of two whole tones and a semitone; the chromatic with two semitones, one major and one minor, and a minor third; and the enharmonic with two dieses (intervals smaller than a semitone) and a major third.
		Such concepts as the variable number of tones in an octave species as well as a gamut containing all intervals were also foreign the ancient theorists.
		In order for two whole tones to add up to a pure major third (5/4), two different whole number ratios are needed: 9/8 between ut and re in the hexachord and 10/9 between re and mi.
	www2.hmc.edu /~alves/vicentino.html (2833 words)

	Guitar EncycloMedia: Lesson Number 5
		Tone 1, also known as the ROOT, is always the letter name of the scale.
		Let's illustrate the C major scale on the holistic (whole) fretboard as letters and tones.
		Remember, the tones 1-3-5 of the major chord are played at the same time.
	www.12tonemusic.com /gemlsn05.htm (366 words)

	Crucial Duty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Major General McKimsey is commanding this operation, in which Colonel O'Neill disapproves of his command.
		Major General McKimsey is sitting off to the side.
		Major Howard said he was delayed, but he never showed up.
	www.gateworld.net /fanfic/archive/20/crucialduty.html (2791 words)

	MNO
		major scale the eight notes of the major scale are arranged as tone-tone- semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
		The mode is equivalent to the major scale with a flatted third and a flatted seventh.
		The oboe d'amore is the alto of the oboe family, used in the baroque period, and the tenor is found in the cor anglais or, in the mid-18th century, in the oboe da caccia.
	www.traditionalmusic.co.uk /traditional-music/ency/nmo.htm (17301 words)

	Musical note intervals
		Here is the twelve tone equal temperament dominant seventh by way of comparison, resolving to the twelve tone major chord in twelve equal.
		A few commonly used major thirds are: pure ratio 5/4 (as used in those clips), equal temperament 400 cents, Pythagorean 81/64, 19-tone major third 378.947 cents, and 31 tone major third 387.097 cents.
		To give a few examples of whole tones and semtones: in 19-et, the whole tone consists of 3 steps, and the semitone of 2, so the semitone is two thirds of a tone.
	tunesmithy.netfirms.com /fts_help/Scales_and_Fractal_Tunes.htm (8075 words)

	The Creation of Musical Scales, part II
		The instrument, which could give to man the fundamental tone for a musical scale, which was in perfect harmony with the universe, was the key to earthly paradise, and essential to the security and evolution of the society.
		It has 5 major tones (9/8) and 2 semi tones, limma (256/243); the third, 81/64, is a cyntonic comma sharper than the harmonic third, 5/4.
		For the old Chinese the tuning of their fundamental tone, Kung, was a matte of outmost importance for their civilization and had to be in alignment with the Cosmic tone so the celestial influence could be channel into the society by music.
	home22.inet.tele.dk /hightower/scales2.htm (8651 words)

	Musician Forums - Another All Encompassing Lesson
		The one major concept, if any that has to be remembered, however is that why the letters are used to indicate a specific tone, numbers in music are not indicative of a specific note, rather they indicate distances.
		If you took a Major scale and put it in the key of C (Indicating that C is the root, tonic, or first note [All those terms are interchangeable]) you would have a perfect scale, as in there would be no sharps or flats.
		What I mean is, if I said that a Major scale was the 1st, and then 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th that is always always diatonic, or that a major chord is the 1st, 3rd and 5th, it's still diatonic.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=199420 (1635 words)

	Musical Scales
		If we call either a major or minor tone just a tone, then a semitone squared is only a little larger, 1.137, so rather loosely we can speak of tones and semitones, with a tone equal to two semitones (i.e., the square in frequency ratio).
		The major scale is then tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone, and this sequence of intervals defines the scale.
		The relation between the perceived tone and the physical stimulus is complex, but on an elementary level the simplest sensations of pitch are related to the frequency of sinusoidal vibrations, an observation known as Ohm's Law.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/waves/music.htm (3985 words)

	Major and minor 3 note (triad) scale tone chords
		major scale tone chords and relative minor scale tone chords
		When you are comfortable with the triad scale tone chords, move on to scale tone chords sevenths (7th).
		Here you will be playing major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th, and half diminished 7th chords.
	www.free-online-piano-lessons.com /scale-tone-chords-triads.html (184 words)

	A Brief History of Tunings and Temperaments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And the beauty of those perfect 3rds and near perfect 6ths are heightened in all that Renaissance choral polyphony, and in the subsequent rise in the use of keyboard instruments in the early Baroque.
		Let's check the major 6th C - A: the 5th partial of C is 1308.13, as above, and the 3rd partial of A is 440 x 3 = 1320.
		A perfect major 3rd is generated from a "major" tone (9/8) and a "minor" tone (10/9)--where the product is obviously 10/8 or 5/4.
	members.iquest.net /~taldr/temperaments.htm (4360 words)

	Lesson 8: Major Scales
		The distance between these two notes is a whole tone, so that conforms to the second interval requirement, tone.
		We show whole tones with a square bracket and semitones with a slur (curve).
		It is the only major scale that has one flat.
	www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca /8major_scales.html (614 words)

	Guitars.co.uk Community Pages: Basics - Major Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The tones we use to construct a major chord are the tonic, the third and the fifth.
		To be clear on this, both of these are ‘major’ chords, as in that they both feature the major third (the third tone from the major scale).
		The major seventh is played using the tonic (I), the third, the fifth as an optional and seventh tone of the major scale (VII).
	www.regentguitars.co.uk /cgi-bin/bulletinboard_cgi/ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/get_topic/f/2/t/000057.html (1752 words)

	Harmonic series (music) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For example, the 6th partial G is an octave higher than the 3rd partial G. After that the harmonics come thick and fast, getting closer and closer together.
		Some harmonics correspond very nearly tonamed pitches; others, for example the 7th harmonic, are signifigantly off from the equal tempered tones.
		Harmony in Western music,especially the major chord, is based on the lower pitches of the overtone series.
	www.therfcc.org /harmonic-series-music--19312.html (661 words)

	JAZCLASS - Jazz scales lesson : Major scale in all Keys
		The major scale can also be described as two major tetrachords (tone - tone - semitone), separated by a tone.
		The upper tetrachord of the major scale is the same as the lower tetrachord of the G major scale.
		Likewise the G and D major scales also share one tatrachord, so do the D and A major scales, and so on, all around the Circle of Fifths.
	www.jazclass.aust.com /scales/scamaj.htm (434 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Major Scales
		This lesson concentrates on what a major scale is, and how starting from any of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale one derives the twelve major scales.
		C major is the only major scale, that is a scale obeying the interval sequence tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone, using only the white keys.
		The C major scale is in fact two tetrachords, one after the other, separated by a tone.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory8.htm (923 words)

	Tonalsoft Encyclopaedia of Tuning -- W. S. B. Woolhouse's 'Essay on musical intervals', (c)1999 by Joe Monzo
		Singers and performers on perfect instruments must all temper their intervals, or they could not keep in tune with each other, or even with themselves; an on arriving at the same notes by different routes, would be continually finding a want of agreement.
		Woolhouse, in stating that equal temperament is rightly the long established basis of tuning, really went too far and overlooked the fact of experience that the deviations of equal temperament from the just ratios are so large that they really do have an appreciable effect on the sound of music performed in equal temperament.
		to ascertain the particular values which must be assigned to the *tone* and diatonic semitone, so that all the concords shall be affected with the least possible imperfections; and this we shall effect by the principle of least squares.
	sonic-arts.org /monzo/woolhouse/essay.htm (8660 words)

	Major and minor 7th scale tone chords
		Chart for major 7th and relative minor 7th scale tone chords
		On this page you will find the scale tone chords (7th) for both the major and minor scales in all 12 keys.
		If you have forgotten how to construct any of the scale tone chords, you can review the lessons on piano chords or go to Chordhouse.com piano chord/scale finder and view the chord on their virtual piano keyboard.
	www.free-online-piano-lessons.com /scale-tone-chords-7th.html (151 words)

	Learning / Notation / The Scales - Espace Cubase
		It means that all the notes of the scale have a different name, and that the interval of the succession of the choosen sounds is neighbouring at about 1 tone or 1 half-tone.
		Analysis of the C major scale, by using the board of intervals :
		In the little lexical of the musical terms by Marc Pincherle, Maurice Emmanuel defines the tonality being a set of melodic and harmonic phenomenons that are organized around the tonic.
	www.espace-cubase.org /anglais/page.php?page=solfk1 (275 words)

	Saskatchewan Recording Industry Association
		F# is the third tone in the D major scale, therefore this interval is a major 3
		The G is lowered a semitone from where it should be in a major scale, therefore this is a minor third.
		Notice how the chorus begins and ends on the tonic note (this is notated in C major, so the tonic note is C), with the melody "returning" often to the tonic.
	www.saskrecording.ca /education/songwriting/Part15.htm (1404 words)

	Chord Construction 2
		One way to grasp what is going on is to relate everything to the degrees of the major scale.
		C E G. As long as you know the major scale you can find the major chord.
		Take another look at the C Major scale this time with a few notes from the second octave added.
	www.the-music.co.uk /tuner/chordconstruction2.htm (983 words)

	The Semiotic Musical Codes of Two Twentieth Century Composers: Cowell and Partch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He advocates the same theory for clusters as triadic harmony, which places a minor third above a major third in order to construct a major triad, a major third above a minor third for a minor one, two minor thirds for a diminished, and finally, two major thirds for an augmented.
		One of the important points to consider in cluster harmony according to Cowell is the notion of outer tones forming an either consonant or dissonant interval, with the former aestheticly superior.
		In the fixed, differentiated are the two methods of employing tone clusters for melodic effect, with the first being “to move clusters of the same interval up and down the scale,” while the second, “to shift the size of the interval as the cluster moves.” The additive cluster technique is illustrated in Ex.
	www.users.bigpond.com /apertout/Cowell-Partch.htm (2121 words)

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