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di·a·ton·ic and chro·mat·ic
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Diatonic and chromatic
Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony. They are very often used as a pair, especially when applied to contrasting features of the common practice music of the period 1600–1900. These terms may mean different things in different contexts. Very often, diatonic refers to musical elements derived from the modes and transpositions of the "white note scale" C–D–E–F–G–A–B. In some usages it includes all forms of heptatonic scale that are in common use in Western music. Chromatic most often refers to structures derived from the chromatic scale, which consists of all semitones. Historically, however, it had other senses, referring in Ancient Greek music theory to a particular tuning of the tetrachord, and to a rhythmic notational convention in mensural music of the 14th through 16th centuries.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of diatonic and chromatic in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of diatonic and chromatic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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