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, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.

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)

• Finnish: duuriasteikko
• French: gamme majeure f, mode majeur m
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• German: Dur (de) n
• Maori: āwhata matua
• Russian: мажо́рная га́мма f (mažórnaja gámma)
• Turkish: majör gamı

References

• major scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia