diatonicismn.
/dʌɪəˈtɒnɪsɪz(ə)m/ Music.
The quality or state of being diatonic; music the tonality of which is predominantly diatonic; a diatonic system.
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enharmonic1603
chromaticism1879
atonality1922
polytonality1923
bitonality1927
diatonism1927
atonalism1928
quarter-tonality1930
diatonicism1931
pentatonism1931
tritonality1931
pandiatonicism1937
microtonality1946
pantonality1946
dodecaphonism1951
dodecaphony1952
serialism1955
pentatonicism1958
minimalism1981
tonalism1990
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 580/4 Returning from Schönbergian wanderings to a ‘sincere diatonicism’.
1938 Scrutiny 7 ii. 173 Even his most complex departures from diatonicism can be referred back to some scale system or chordal structure.
1959 Listener 20 Aug. 297/1 Frank added-note diatonicism is allied to blatantly nautical-English melody.
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