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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
diatonic /ˌdʌɪəˈtɒnɪk/
▶adjective Music involving only notes proper to the prevailing key without chromatic alteration.
– origin C17: from Fr. diatonique, or via late L. from Gk diatonikos ‘at intervals of a tone’.
'diatonic' also found in these Oxford entries:
A
- Aeolian mode
- B
- C
- chromatic
- D
- dominant
- Dorian mode
- E
- F
- fifth
- fourth
- G
- Ionian mode
- Lydian mode
- mediant
- ninth
- Phrygian mode
- second
- seventh
- sixth
- subdominant
- submediant
- subtonic
- supertonic
- tenth
- third
- twelfth
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