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musical scale
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Noun1.musical scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)musical scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
musical notation - (music) notation used by musicians
gamut - the entire scale of musical notes
diatonic scale - a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
chromatic scale - a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
gapped scale - a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner


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Derived Scale Items At the end of stage 1, 2,347 valid questionnaires were collected from the three countries.
The MAC and MAC-R are empirically derived scales that were intended to be indirect measures of alcoholism, since neither version of the scales contain any questions obviously related to actual alcohol consumption or alcohol-related problems.
 
 
 
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