Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music Describing a
mode orscale that has sixpitches in anoctave .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hexatonic.
Examples
-
And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six notes) or full scale (seven notes).
NPR Topics: News 2010
-
And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six notes) or full scale (seven notes).
NPR Topics: News 2010
-
And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six notes) or full scale (seven notes).
NPR Topics: News 2010
-
And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six notes) or full scale (seven notes).
NPR Topics: News 2010
chained_bear commented on the word hexatonic
"Five- or six-note scales, called 'pentatonic' or 'hexatonic' scales, are common and altogether twenty-four different ones have been described, which gives some idea of the expressive nuance available to the player."
—William Donaldson, Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), 29
July 31, 2008