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  1. octatonic scalenoun

    a scale that has four half step intervals and four whole step intervals that alternate

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  1. Octatonic scale

    An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. Among the most famous of these is a scale in which the notes ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step, creating a symmetric scale. In classical theory, in contradistinction to jazz theory, this scale is commonly simply called the octatonic scale, although there are forty-two other non-enharmonically equivalent, non-transpositionally equivalent eight-tone sets possible. In jazz theory this scale is more particularly called the diminished scale, or symmetric diminished scale, because it can be conceived as a combination of two interlocking diminished seventh chords, just as the augmented scale can be conceived as a combination of two interlocking augmented triads. The earliest systematic treatment of the octatonic scale was Edmond de Polignac's unpublished treatise, "Etude sur les successions alternantes de tons et demi-tons" from c. 1879, which preceded Vito Frazzi's Scale alternate per pianoforte of 1930 by a full half-century. The term octatonic pitch collection was first introduced into English by Arthur Berger in 1963.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of octatonic scale in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of octatonic scale in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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  • ऑक्टाटोनिक स्केलHindi
  • ಆಕ್ಟಟೋನಿಕ್ ಸ್ಕೇಲ್Kannada
  • ладаRussian

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