MUSICAL SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical scale mean? 

• MUSICAL SCALE (noun)
  The noun MUSICAL SCALE has 1 sense:

1. (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

  Familiarity information: MUSICAL SCALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSICAL SCALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

musical scale; scale

Hypernyms ("musical scale" is a kind of...):

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Meronyms (members of "musical scale"):

musical note; note; tone (a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical scale"):

gamut (the entire scale of musical notes)

diatonic scale (a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones)

chromatic scale (a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave)

gapped scale (a musical scale with fewer than seven notes)

 Context examples 

I take the spectrum and I, essentially, mathematically resample that to a musical scale and that gives that spectrum, which is inherently atonal, it gives it the tonality.

(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)