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octatonic, a. Music.
Brit. |ˌɒktəˈtɒnɪk|, U.S. |ˌɑktəˈtɑnɪk|, |ˌɑkdəˈtɑnɪk|
[‹ octa- comb. form + tonic adj., after tone n. 4a.]
Designating a scale of eight notes made up of alternating tone and semitone intervals. Of a composition or musical style: based on or using octatonic scales.
1963A. Berger in Perspectives New Music Fall–Winter 20 A formal approach to this scale (hereafter referred to as ‘octatonic’) would calculate the structure and enumerate the properties at once. 1975R. Fink & R. Ricci Lang. 20th Cent. Music 60/1 Igor Stravinsky used the octatonic scale in Noces. (1922). 2001Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. 69 Some of these sonatas were written by professional composers... There are programmatic, operatic, dramatic, and didactic sonatas; diatonic, pentatonic, octatonic, chromatic, and modal sonatas. |