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whole-tone scale

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The two possible whole-tone scales.

In music, a scale consisting of six whole tones per octave. There are only two possible variants: the scale including the notes C-D-E-F sharp-G sharp-A sharp, and the scale including the notes D flat-E flat-F-G-A-B. In Western music the whole-tone scale became popular with Impressionist composers, including Debussy, partly because having no semitones or perfect intervals within the scale, it has no sense of tonic.
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