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In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step. There are only two whole tone scales, both hexachords, each using half of the pitches in the chromatic scale:

When one of these scales is played on a piano, starting from a low octave and moving up to a high octave, while at the same time pressing the sustain pedal, the result is a " dreamy" sound, such as are used in movies to signal the change from "reality" to a dream, or back from the dream to reality.

Claude Debussy and other Impressionist composers made extensive use of whole tone scales; since they are symmetrical, whole tone scales don't give a strong impression of the tonic or tonality. The whole tone scale was also used by Alban BergInset of portrait of Berg by Arnold Schoenberg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that comb in his Violin ConcertoAlban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 (the score is dated 11 August 1935). It is probably Berg's best known and most often performed piece. Conception and composition The piece stemmed from a commission from the violinist Louis Krasner. When he, and by Bela Bartók in his String Quartet No. 5The String Quartet No. 5 by Bela Bartok was written between August 6 and September 6, 1934. The work is in five movements: Allegro Adagio molto Scherzo: alla bulgarese Andante Finale: Allegro vivace Like the String Quartet No. 4 and several other works by.

The whole tone scale is interval cycleIn music, interval cycle s, "unfold a single recurrent interval in a series that closes with a return to the initial pitch class", and are notated by George Perle using the letter "C", for cycle, with an interval class integer to distinguish the interval. 2, or C2. Since there are only two transpositions of the whole tone scale it is either C20 or C21.

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Musical scales

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