musical scale

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musical scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) scale 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