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Categories: Post-tonal music theory, Musical symmetry, Persian music, Octatonic scales, All articles that may contain original research
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octatonic scale  8-28  8 note scale  alpha chord  Alpha chord collection
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An eight-note scale made up of alternating semitones and whole tones. Open English WordNet
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An eight-note scale made up of alternating semitones and whole tones. Open English WordNet
An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. Wikipedia
Eight-note musical scale Wikidata
A scale that has four half step intervals and four whole step intervals that alternate. Wiktionary
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Bernstein often used the octatonic scale, also very popular in jazz music, as a basis for his compositions. Open English WordNet
IS A
scale
mode of limited transposition
BASED ON
diminished seventh chord
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8-28, 8 note scale, alpha chord, Alpha chord collection, beta chord, diminished scale, Gamma chord, Golden section chord, octatonic, octatonic mode, octatonicism, Octotonic scale, Pijper's scale, Pijper scale, Symmetrical-diminished scale, Symmetrical diminished scale, Α chord, Β chord, Γ chord

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