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whole-tone scale  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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