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PRONUNCIATION OF HEPTATONIC

heptatonic  [ˌhɛptəˈtɒnɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEPTATONIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heptatonic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HEPTATONIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heptatonic scale

A heptatonic scale is a musical scale with seven pitches per octave. Among the most famous of these are the major scale, C D E F G A B C; the melodic minor scale, C D E♭ F G A B C ascending, C B♭ A♭ G F E♭ D C descending; the harmonic minor scale, C D E♭ F G A♭ B C; and a scale variously known as the Byzantine, Hungarian, gypsy, or Egyptian scale, C D E♭ F♯ G A♭ B C. South Indian classical theory postulates seventy-two melakarta, seven-tone scale types, whereas Hindustani classical music postulates twelve or ten seven-tone scale types collectively called thaat. Most heptatonic scales of Western, Hungarian, Arabian, Greek, and Indian musics can be analyzed as juxtaposition of tetrachords. All heptatonic scales have all intervals present in their Interval vector analysis, and thus all heptatonic scales are both hemitonic and tritonic. There is a special affinity for heptatonic scales in the Western Key signature system.

Definition of heptatonic in the English dictionary

The definition of heptatonic in the dictionary is comprising seven notes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEPTATONIC


auxotonic
ˌɔːksəˈtɒnɪk
catatonic
ˌkætəˈtɒnɪk
cratonic
krəˈtɒnɪk
diatonic
ˌdaɪəˈtɒnɪk
homotonic
ˌhɒməˈtɒnɪk
hypertonic
ˌhaɪpəˈtɒnɪk
hypotonic
ˌhaɪpəˈtɒnɪk
megatonic
ˌmeɡəˈtɒnɪk
monotonic
ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk
myotonic
ˌmaɪəˈtɒnɪk
Neo-Platonic
ˌniːəʊpləˈtɒnɪk
opisthotonic
əˌpɪsθəˈtɒnɪk
orthotonic
ˌɔːθəˈtɒnɪk
paratonic
ˌpærəˈtɒnɪk
pentatonic
ˌpɛntəˈtɒnɪk
Platonic
pləˈtɒnɪk
stratonic
strəˈtɒnɪk
supertonic
ˌsuːpəˈtɒnɪk
tonic
ˈtɒnɪk
vagotonic
ˌveɪɡəˈtɒnɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEPTATONIC

heptamerous
heptameter
heptametrical
heptandrous
heptane
heptangular
heptapodic
heptapody
heptarch
heptarchal
heptarchic
heptarchies
heptarchist
heptarchy
heptastich
heptasyllabic
Heptateuch
heptathlete
heptathlon
heptavalent

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEPTATONIC

architectonic
atonic
cardiotonic
dystonic
electronic
electrotonic
epitonic
excitonic
geotectonic
Indian tonic
isotonic
ketonic
leptonic
Miltonic
photonic
phytoplanktonic
planktonic
plutonic
protonic
syntonic
Teutonic

Synonyms and antonyms of heptatonic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heptatonic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEPTATONIC

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The translations of heptatonic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heptatonic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

heptatonic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heptatónica
570 millions of speakers

English

heptatonic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heptatonic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

heptatonic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

heptatonic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heptatonic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heptatonic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

heptatonique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heptatonik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heptatonic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

heptatonic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

heptatonic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heptatonic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heptatonic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

heptatonic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेप्पटोनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heptatonic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

heptatonic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heptatoniczną
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

heptatonic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heptatonic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

heptatonic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heptatonic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heptatonic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heptatonic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heptatonic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEPTATONIC»

The term «heptatonic» is used very little and occupies the 184.847 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEPTATONIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heptatonic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEPTATONIC»

Discover the use of heptatonic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heptatonic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution
I he Indian term for a heptatonic series, sampurn (lit. complete), suggests that hexa- tonic and pentatonic series are incomplete, lacking either one or two notes. This provides justification for the use of the term transilient (or gapped) scales for  ...
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, 1995
2
Dithyramb in Context
the practice of adhering to a single heptatonic/diatonic“ tuning per piece was typical of a Mesopotamian music tradition established as classical by the Old Babylonian period. VAT 10101 is a catalogue text which presents 360 song titles  ...
Barbara Kowalzig, Peter Wilson, 2013
3
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and ...
(ii) The heptatonic scale and later elaborations A pentatonic scale or a number of different pentatonic scales were thus in use in China by the —4th century. But there is also a tradition of heptatonic music, invented, as Cheng Hsiian and other  ...
Joseph Needham, 1962
4
Africa and Indonesia the Evidence of the Xylophone and Other ...
At this stage it was no more than a vague impression: so we decided to test first the Equi-heptatonic xylophones to see if there were any substance of fact in this ' hunch', and if so, what exactly is the vibration number (vps.) of this note, which we  ...
A. M. Jones, 1971
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Saṅgītaśiromaṇi: A Medieval Handbook of Indian Music
According to some people it is not a rdgdhga. [It should be sung during the first period of the day, when there is a festival and when the erotic sentiment is expressed]41. [Its notes are equally important. Its scale is heptatonic. Ri is its upper limit.
Emmie Te Nijenhuis, 1992
6
Theory of African Music
The bi-directional skipping process and the resulting triads Among heptatonic groups the double skipping process opens up a new dimension for harmonic- melodic organization. Now each singer has two counter-notes at his disposal. To the A ...
Gerhard Kubik, 2010
7
How Musical is Man?
The melodies of songs may use anything from one to seven tones, selected from various heptatonic modes. Songs that use five tones may be based on a pentatonic scale or on selections of five tones from a heptatonic mode (like the " Ode to ...
John Blacking, 1973
8
Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International ...
Likewise, by examining the mapping between scalar order and lattice arrangement for representative scales of each of the other heptatonic pwwf words , we can obtain suitable expressions for their generators as a function of their step sizes:8 ...
Elaine Chew, Adrian Childs, Ching-Hua Chuan, 2009
9
The Ballad as Song
A tune built on one of the pentatonic scale patterns lays claim to potential relations with three heptatonic modes. Take, for instance, the pentatonic lacking the third and seventh degrees. If both gaps are filled with "major" degrees, the tune ...
Bertrand Harris Bronson, 1969
10
Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music
Similarly, let the heptatonic scale be any scale with seven degrees. By this definition, the scale made by the white keys of the piano is the equal-tempered heptatonic scale. The diatonic scale (see section 2.4.2) is a heptatonic scale with a ...
Gareth Loy, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEPTATONIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heptatonic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Scaling notes and pitching songs
This sort of scale is called a Heptatonic Scale (no, that's not a ruler dripping with a sweet cough syrup called 'Hepta'! Ancient Italians, who ... «The Hindu, Sep 14»
2
Raga a musical mood
... most raga are placed: Audava/pentatonic (comprising five notes), Shadava/hexatonic (six notes) and Sampoorna/heptatonic (seven notes). «The Hindu, Aug 14»
3
Meet the Shaggs
Are the Shaggs referencing the heptatonic, angular microtones of Chinese ya-yueh court music and the atonal note clusters of Ornette ... «The New Yorker, Jul 14»
4
Ancient bone flutes suggest 9000-year-old music tradition in China
The narrow brown pipes, around 8 inches long with patterns carved on their surface, are believed to be the oldest heptatonic, or multinote scale ... «UPI.com, Nov 13»
5
Bone flutes suggest 9000-year-old Chinese music tradition
The flutes have been dubbed the world's earliest heptatonic musical instruments discovered so far. The narrow brown pipes of around 20 cm in ... «Xinhua, Nov 13»
6
Bone flute discovery indicates 9000 years of Chinese music tradition
The bone flutes, pictured above, are thought to be the world's earliest heptatonic musical instruments ever discovered. The simple flutes are ... «Shanghaiist, Nov 13»
7
Music reviews
Bhavapriya, which is not a very familiar raga, is the 44th mela and a full fledged heptatonic scale and the raga became popular through the ... «Deccan Herald, May 13»
8
An American In Mali, Teaching The Country's Sounds
"And we're using heptatonic balafons. A balafon is a wooden xylophone, pretty much. It's an African xylophone, but it's wooden, it's hand-carved ... «NPR, Apr 13»
9
Neba Solo carries forth musical traditions of Mali
Their balafon, the one of the great medieval Mande empire and its heirs, is built on a heptatonic (7-note) scale. Monson's are of the humble ... «Boston Globe, Nov 12»
10
BandMaster for Mac OS X Released
Listed below are guide tones, chord tones, a selection of compatible pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic and octatocnic scales as well as upper ... «prMac, Oct 12»

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« EDUCALINGO. Heptatonic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/heptatonic>. May 2024 ».
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