Definitions for diatonic

diatonic di·a·ton·ic

Spelling: [dahy-uh-ton-ik]
IPA: /ˌdaɪ əˈtɒn ɪk/

Diatonic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 234 anagrams from letters in diatonic (acdiinot).

Definitions for diatonic

adjective

  1. noting those scales that contain five whole tones and two semitones, as the major, minor, and certain modal scales.
  2. of or relating to the tones, intervals, or harmonies of such scales.

Origin of diatonic

1590-1600; Late Latin diatonicus Greek diatonikós; see dia-, tonic

Examples for diatonic

But in the quaint jump of the third the Church had no part, clinging closely to a diatonic process.

The notes are the fifth, and major third, of the diatonic scale.

Certainly his tonalities are on the other side of diatonic and chromatic.

All progressions must be diatonic, and parts should not cross.

Chromatic: A tone of the key which is not a member of its diatonic scale.

In the diatonic, there are two consecutive tones, and the third interval of a semitone completes the tetrachord.

These eight beatitudes are the diatonic scale of heaven's music.

Of harshness in modulation he knew nothing: his chromatic changes were as soft and flowing as when he kept to the diatonic genus.

The fifteen characters, it has been noticed, form two diatonic octaves.

There are three classes of modes: first, that which the Greeks term the enharmonic; second, the chromatic; third, the diatonic.

Word Value for diatonic
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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