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	NewComposer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The seventh tone of the major scale is often referred to as the “leading tone” and usually is followed by the tonic or key center, in this case, B to C, when played in a melody or in a series of two chords.
		In general, the vibrating frequency of a tone produced on a woodwind instrument such as a flute or oboe is dependent on the length of the vibrating column of air within the hollow tube of the instrument.
		Tones of different pitch also can be produced on a vertical flute (called a recorder) or on a traditional metal flute (transverse flute) by drilling a series of holes in the tube of the instrument.
	courses.ncssm.edu /church/emusic/NewMusic/Composer/MusicalScales.htm (3288 words)

	Guitar Theory Resources Whole Tone Scale
		A tone is simply the distance from one note to another note two frets above or below your original starting note.
		The Whole Tone scale is also a good choice for most augmented (+) chords.
		Whole Tone scales are a lot of fun to play on the guitar as they provide so many different patterns and shapes which are easy to remember.
	johncomino.tripod.com /wholesc.htm (337 words)

	GuitarPeople.com - Lessons
		Traditionally, the whole tone scale is confined to dominant 7b5 and dominant 7#5 chords.
		This whole tone fragment is a four point block or actually a rectangle that lies very nicely under your fingertips.
		Another approach to manipulating these whole tone fragments is to move these blocks of information up and down the guitar neck in whole steps (every two frets).
	www.guitarpeople.com /jazz/wholetone.asp (590 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Diminished and whole tone?
		Whole Tone scale: There are 12 half steps (one fret) in the chromatic scale, a Whole step is two half steps (two frets).
		The whole tone scale is not diatonic neither is the m3 (dim7 arp) scale.
		Often confused with the Whole Tone scale, the Augmented scale is another synthetic scale which is made up of a repeating pattern of intervals.
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/printthread.php?t=767 (1022 words)

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		The pattern right before he starts singing is a whole tone scale in thirds.
		In "Take the 'A' Train" the second chord is a II7 chord, try playing a whole tone scale that starts on the same note as the root of the chord.
		Whole step/half step diminished scales are the same configuration of notes except that you start the scale with a whole step rather than a half step.
	www.saxlessons.com /symmetricalscales.htm (399 words)

	Expressing Whole-number Ratios in Cents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The upper tone of an octave vibrates at twice the frequency of the lower one (2:1).
		Since a semitone spans 1/12 the distance of the octave, the frequency of the upper tone of a semitone is calculated as the 12th root of 2 higher than the lower tone, or 1.05946 times the frequency of the lower tone.
		In practice, cents are rounded to the nearest whole cent (the human ear generally is not sensitive to pitch differences under 2 cents), so we may say that the Pythagorean major third is about 8 cents wider than the equal tempered third (400 cents, the sum of 4 semitones inclusive).
	academic.wsc.edu /finearts/bonds_c/tunings.htm (527 words)

	Whole tone scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, a whole tone scale (set form 6-35, 02468t) is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step.
		The whole tone scale is interval cycle 2, or C2.
		Since there are only two transpositions of the whole tone scale it is either C2 or C2 For this reason, it is the first of Olivier Messiaen's modes of limited transposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whole_tone_scale (541 words)

	Interval (music)
		A semitone, (also called half tone or half step), is the smallest interval in Western musical tuning.
		Typically names with 'minor' or 'major' in them are preferred, so the more correct way to write the interval given in the example is 'minor 7th.' The primary exception to this being in the case of a diminished 7th, which has a specific function within a full diminished 7th chord.
		The interval of augmentation and diminishment is a semitone only in modern equal temperament, where a semitone is exactly half a tone.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Half_step.html (774 words)

	Lesson 7: Small Intervals
		The 'G' and the 'A' are one whole tone away from each other due to the fact that there is a note in between them: the G-sharp, or A-flat.
		Whole tones are written on the staff so that if one note is on a line, the other must be on the space above or below it.
		And just as with the situation regarding whole tones, do not assume that because you have placed the notes correctly on the staff that they are automatically a tone-plus-semitone apart.
	brebru.com /musicroom/theory/lesson7/smallintervals.html (636 words)

	Notation Software Support Forum: Shady Lady-whole tone scale
		The purpose in doing it is simply to actually DO something with the whole tone scale, or scales, since there are two of them, which if played one after the other starting from the same tone has something of a chromatic feel.
		The only "rule" in whole tone composition is, apparently, that the blurry feel imparted by the scale be kept interesting, which means using more than the augmented chords which are the only ones available, if you stick to the idea of the 1,3 and 5 tones being basic.
		One way to keep the whole tone feel is to switch between the two scales, as often as every chord or two.
	www.notation.com /cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.cgi?file=/26504/27388.html (4105 words)

	Scales that aren't Major or Minor
		In both the chromatic and the whole tone scales, all the intervals are the same.
		Beginning on a b, write a whole tone scale that uses a different pitches than the one in figure 2.
		Some, like the whole tone scale, are invented by composers exploring new ideas; some, with common appellations such as "Persian" and "Hungarian", are based on the music of other cultures.
	cnx.org /content/m11636/latest (1813 words)

	tone - definition by dict.die.net
		The components (of a composite sound) are called partial tones; that one having the lowest rate of vibration is the fundamental tone, and the other partial tones are called harmonics, or overtones.
		Resultant tones, combination tones, summation tones, difference tones, Tartini's tones (terms only in part synonymous) are produced by the simultaneous sounding of two or more primary (simple or composite) tones.
		To tone up, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen.
	dict.die.net /tone (1058 words)

	Whole-tone Resources
		One usually hears the lowest tone in the texture as the root of the chord because it is the root of the lowest major third.
		whole tone passing chords provide a melodic linkage in a passage of complex chords.
		A rich panchromatic context is possible by combining a whole tone scale and its transposition.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~krr2/ct_whole.html (648 words)

	Pythagorean Temperament
		If a 9/8 (whole tone) interval is carved out of the larger ones, a smaller (semitone) interval is left: B-C and E-F. This creates a Pythagorean diatonic scale.
		In devising the equal tempered scale it was important to maintain not only the octave, fifth, and fourth at close to their just values, but also to maintain the whole tone.
		Expressed in cents notation, the natural whole tone is 204¢, compared to 200¢ for the equal tempered whole tone, just within the accepted 5¢ just noticeable difference.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/music/pythag.html (328 words)

	Marc Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer: Symmetric Scales
		A particularly easy scale is the whole tone scale, so called because all the steps in the scale are whole steps.
		This scale is also called the whole step half step scale, or the half step whole step scale, because it is constructed from alternating half and whole steps.
		This scale is very similar to the altered scale, which you may recall is also called the diminished whole tone scale.
	www.outsideshore.com /primer/primer/ms-primer-4-4.html (985 words)

	Teaching the Whole Tone Scale Music Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Musical Teaching Idea
		First define what a whole tone scale is, a scale that is comprised completely of whole tones.
		I would recommend the whole tone section in Claude Debussy's "Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'" because of the ease of finding recordings and also "The Cage" by Charles Ives.
		Hopefully this idea of the whole tone scale can help them understand some of the 20th century that you might be working on in class.
	www.lessonplanspage.com /MusicTeachWholeToneScale1012.htm (387 words)

	Tone row
		cantata no. 60, which opens with consecutive whole tones, is quoted literally in the woodwinds (mostly clarinet).
		The tone row of many of other Webern's late works are similarly intricate.
		Tone row may also be used to describe other musical collections or scales such as in
	www.mp3.fm /Tone_row.htm (276 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Scale
		A collection of tones traversing the interval of the octave, among which one tone is particularly stable.
		A scale is a collection of tones traversing the interval of the octave, among which one tone is particularly stable.
		This stable tone, called the tonic, is like a "center of gravity" or "home base" for a scale, acting both as a point of departure and a place to return.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/scale.html (1950 words)

	The Whole tone scale I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Some theorists have classified in their analysis this scale as WT0 (whole tone 0) and WT1 (whole tone 1); the main difference is that the first one (WT0) the natural pitches are C-D-E and the other ones with accidentals, while the second one (WT1) would be on the contrary (C#-D#-E#).
		The Whole tone scale is usually related to the Impressionisms period and to Claude Debussy (1862-1918).
		This type of scale is harmonically limited because it is impossible to build mayor or minor triads and the only seventh chord we could create are the dominant 7th but with his diminished 5th, in other words, the French augmented sixth, or with the augmented 5th.
	www.teoria.com /articulos/aramirez/01.htm (194 words)

	M I L E S O S L A N D - Professor of Saxophone
		The construction of the Whole Tone Scale (also known as the Six Tone Scale) can be conceived intervallically as W W W W d3(W) W(see example fourteen).
		The Whole Tone scale can be applied in a progression with a dominant chord that consists of a raised fifth, raised fourth (or lowered fifth, sharp eleven), or both.
		If you run across a chord with an altered ninth (#9 or b9) as an extension, the Whole Tone scale would not not be a good scale choice because of the dissonant clash that would occur with the natural ninth (second scale degree).
	www.milesosland.com /shtmus/jp1.html (747 words)

	Njaama Tone
		With respect to tone, what autosegmental phonology does is it allows us to talk about tones as something separate from the actual phonological form of a word (i.e., the letters).
		Three things happen: (1) First, a low tone is inserted by default into the world mula, giving the whole word low vowels; (2) the pitchless prefix wa- is attached; and then (3) since all vowels must have a pitch, the nearest pitch spreads, that pitch being the low tone on the u vowel in mula.
		Hostility aside, though, the definition of upstep is, shall we say, the phenomenon which occurs when two L tones which are associated with two separate tone bearing units (e.g., vowels) are separated, on the tonal tier, by a H tone which is associated with nothing (i.e., it's floating).
	dedalvs.free.fr /njaama/tone.html (2457 words)

	Music Theory
		A scale is simply a progression of notes in ascending or descending order, so arranged for theoretical purposes, vocal or instrumental exercise, or as part of a composition.
		(raised or lowered) between whole 'tones', thus, it is also called a 'half a tone'.
		As the name suggests, a whole-tone scale consists of a series of intervals of one whole tone (or note).
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1795/scales.htm (593 words)

	Lesson 7: Small Intervals
		A whole tone equals the distance of two semitones.
		This distance of two semitones is called one whole tone.
		To write whole tones, we begin by ensuring that they've been placed on the staff correctly.
	www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca /7small_intervals.html (724 words)

	The Learning Site for Piano Players
		Whole tone scales are easy to play and always sound slick and colorful.
		Because the scale is constructed of consistant whole tones, all sequencial patterns sound very musical.
		This pamphlet teaches the two whole tone scales using any starting note and provides a comprehensive examination of common voicings.
	www.keyboardedu.com /Pamphlets/pamwholetone.html (129 words)

	Tonality [M.Tevfik DORAK]
		In the whole prelude there is no perfect (closed) cadence or enough strong chord progressions (chords moving a fourth or fifth apart) to give the piece any tonal identity.
		In summary, it is the combination of the semitonal linear movement, the lack of perfect cadence and the high level of dissonance, which is responsible for the Wagnerian unending melody.
		Tonal ambiguity: Diminished sevenths, tritones (whole tone scale) [tonally polyvalent chords]; semitonal progressions (twelve note scale); extended tonality (free chromaticism, modal inflections); lack of cadences (fluid tonality); oscillating major-minor triads; empty fifths; high level dissonance; unresolved appoggiatura chords.
	members.tripod.com /~dorakmt/music/tonality.html (955 words)

	whole-tone / whole step / major-2nd / M2 - a musical interval between two adjacent letter-names, about 200 cents in size
		A musical interval whose diatonic pitch-distance always traverses 2 adjacent letter-names inclusively, which may or may not involve a change of accidental, and which is approximately 200 cents, give or take about 50.
		The interval designations "whole-tone", "whole step", and "major-2nd" (or "M2") are synonymous.
		Also synonymous with the definition of tone which designates roughly a 9/8 ratio or an interval with a size of approximately 200 cents or 1/6 of an octave.
	www.tonalsoft.com /enc/w/whole-tone.aspx (512 words)

	Hexatonic Scales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The only common Hexatonic (6-note) scales we find in modern western music are the blues scale and the "whole tone scale." Both of these scales are rather new to western music, starting in the late 19th and 20th century.
		Of course any 7-note scale with one note missing can be regarded as a 6 note scale though in most cases the sound is not distinctly different from the original 7-note scale.
		The whole tone scale also has the property that no matter which note you start on, it is still a whole tone scale.
	www.phy.mtu.edu /~suits/hexatonic.html (214 words)

	Half Steps and Whole Steps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Figure 3: Three whole step intervals: between C and D; between E and F sharp; and between G sharp and A sharp (or A flat and B flat).
		A whole tone scale, a scale made only of whole steps, sounds very different from a chromatic scale.
		You can count any number of whole steps or half steps between notes; just remember to count all sharp or flat notes (the fl keys on a keyboard) as well as all the natural notes (the white keys) that are in between.
	cnx.org /content/m10866/latest (483 words)

	MTO 4.6: Rahn, Practical Aspects of Marchetto's Tuning
		This is not to say that the students heard all tones differing by less than ~15% as "the same." Post- experiment de-briefing indicated that, if perceived as differing, such tones were heard as not differing enough to constitute a semitone.
		The space for a whole tone could be divided into 5 equal segments by construing its 9/8 ratio as 45/40.
		Moreover, in each of these, the divergent tones form a coherent grouping of their own, parallel to the diatonic originals--a "displaced cycle," as it were, shadowing the cycle of 5ths.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.98.4.6/mto.98.4.6.rahn.html (7196 words)

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