diatonic

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Etymology

From French diatonique or Late Latin diatonicus, ultimately from Ancient Greek διατονικός (diatonikós), in the phrase διατονικός (diatonikós) (in reference to the diatonic tetrachord, and in contrast to the chromatic and enharmonic tetrachords), from διάτονος (diátonos) (διά (diá) + τόνος (tónos)), of disputed etymology, as both components are ambiguous.

Most plausibly, διάτονος (diátonos) refers to “stretched intervals”, as the intervals of the diatonic tetrachord are the most evenly distributed or “stretched out”, compared to the chromatic and enharmonic tetrads, which use smaller, more crowded together intervals. Compare pyknon, from πυκνός (puknós, “dense, compressed”), referring to the lower part of the non-diatonic tetrachords: the diatonic tetrachord has widely spaced notes (“stretched out”), while the other tetrachords have a closely spaced notes (“compressed”).

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diatonic (not comparable)

  1. (music) Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of five whole tones and two semitones; particularly, of the major or natural minor scales.

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  1. ^ Michaelides, Solon, The Music of Ancient Greece: An Encyclopaedia (London; Faber and Faber, 1978), pp. 335–40: “Tonos”. Τόνος may refer to a pitch, an interval, a "key" or register of the voice, or a mode.
  2. ^ Barsky, Vladimir, Chromaticism, Routledge, 1996, p. 2: “There are two possible ways of translating the Greek term 'diatonic': (1) 'running through tones', i.e. through the whole tones; or (2) a 'tensed' tetrachord filled up with the widest intervals.”

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diatonique or Latin diatonicus.

Adjective

diatonic m or n (feminine singular diatonică, masculine plural diatonici, feminine and neuter plural diatonice)

  1. (music) diatonic

Declension

Declension of diatonic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite diatonic diatonică diatonici diatonice
definite diatonicul diatonica diatonicii diatonicele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite diatonic diatonice diatonici diatonice
definite diatonicului diatonicei diatonicilor diatonicelor
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