scalicadj.
/ˈskeɪlɪk/ Music.
= scalar adj. 3.
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scalewise1931
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1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 139/1 ‘The Rebel Stranger’ ..shows in its seven versions how a tune may develop by blending scalic with figural features of melody.
1960 Times 5 Mar. 9/6 A scalic tune, that can sound quite unpromising.
1971 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 10/3 Kempff will sometimes pedal scalic passages and is apt to be crowded out by violin accompaniments.
1979 Early Music 7 545/1 Babell's elaborations are always scalic, and on the first page of 51 the same passage, repeated sequentially, is embellished three times in an identical manner.
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