
Diatonic/Chromatic
- These are opposites. Chromatic means including every semitone.
Diatonic means including only notes that are included in a major or minor
scale or key.
- Hence a diatonic interval is one in which
both the top and bottom notes are part of the same major or minor
scale; a chromatic interval
is one where this is not so.
- A diatonic scale is a major or minor one.
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