minor diatonic scale

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   a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th

   Synonymsminor scale

   Broadermode

Questions about minor diatonic scale

What does minor diatonic scale mean?

minor diatonic scale means "a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th".

What is another word for minor diatonic scale?

Close synonyms include minor scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minor diatonic scale a common word?

minor diatonic scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.