Chromatic scale

See also: Scale

In the Musical theory, the chromatic scale indicates a musical scale made up of the seven degrees of the diatonic scale added with five intermediate notes, these last dividing each your in two semitones by means of deteriorations.

  • Whereas the diatonic scale appears as isolated semitones diatonic framing alternate groups of two and three let us tons, the chromatic scale is only one succession of semitones - five diatonic semitones chromatic and seven semitones. This quasi-identity of the joint intervals estrangement the reference marks and tends to generate a fuzzy tonal.

  • the chromatic scale is used in the tonal music since the Renaissance. Some Compositeur S of the 19th century will make an intensive use of it - Wagner, Liszt, etc At the beginning of the 20th century, it will be adopted by the type-setters practitioner the Serial music dodecaphonic - Schönberg, Berg, Webern, etc - like by the Free jazz…

  • the chromatic scale and intermediate notes:

  • Notation of the chromatic scale - ascending then downward - in the octave C-C :

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