chromatic scale

chromatic scale

English

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Noun

chromatic scale (plural chromatic scales)

1. (music) A scale including all twelve semitones in an octave.

   Coordinate term: diatonic scale

Translations

a scale including all twelve semitones in an octave

Chinese: Mandarin: 半音階 (zh), 半音阶 (zh) (bànyīnjiē) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: chromatische toonladder f Finnish: kromaattinen asteikko French: échelle chromatique f Irish: scála leath-thonach m Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 半音階 (はんおんかい, han'onkai) Maori: āwhata tokitoki Portuguese: escala cromática f Spanish: escala cromática f Tagalog: talalinggang pinayaman