tetratonic

Example Sentences

• "The two Creek Indian "Duck Dance Songs" from the north- eastern United States illustrate the use of a tetratonic scale, A, C, D, E ( Example 5a ), and a pentatonic scale, A, C, D, E, G ( Example 5b )."
• "Pentatony can also come about through the simple complement and melodic development of the tetratonic melodic nucleus."
• "This four-note pattern is called a tetratonic, or also sometimes referred to as a melodic structures (by saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, and others). […] This is powerful because applying this tetratonic formula R235 or R345, you have something that works(!) to play on every chord change and on every beat."
• "Of course such tetratonic music is capable of powerful expression in its own particular mood but there has apparently been no attempt to evolve form as such."
• "Beyond these areas Sasak music largely diverges from pélog and slendro tonality, and there are a number of tetratonic forms — in compositions for gamelan beleq and kamput, for example."
• "Tetratonic music was noted as common in Polynesia and Melanesia."