major scale

English

Noun

major scale (plural major scales)

1. (music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.

   In the key of C Major, the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C form a major scale:

   

Hypernyms

• scale

Related terms

• minor scale
• modal scale

Translations

diatonic scale

Chinese: Mandarin: 大音階 / 大音阶 (dàyīnjiē), 大調音階 / 大调音阶, 大调音階 (dàdiào yīnjiē) Czech: durová stupnice f Finnish: duuriasteikko (fi) French: gamme majeure (fr) f, mode majeur m German: Dur (de) n Hungarian: dúr hangsor/skála Japanese: 長音階 (chō onkai) Maori: āwhata matua Persian: گام ماژور (gâm-e mâžor) Romanian: gamă majoră (ro) f Russian: мажо́рная га́мма f (mažórnaja gámma) Slovene: durova lestvica f Swedish: durskala (sv) c Turkish: majör gamı

References

• major scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia