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The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
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The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.
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The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.
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A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
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To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
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The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
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The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
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The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
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The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.
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The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
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