applied to contrasting features of the common practice music of the period 1600-1900.

These terms may mean different things in different contexts. Very often, diatonic refers to musical elements derived from the modes and transpositions of the "white note scale" C-D-E-F-G-A-B. In some usages it includes all forms of heptatonic scale that are in common use in Western music (the major, and all forms of the minor).

Chromatic most often refers

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