pentatonic in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The music, based on the pentatonic scale, has some resemblance to blues.
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The amadinda is made of twelve logs which are tuned in a pentatonic scale.
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Several of these pitch sets interlocking could form a larger set such as a pentatonic scale.
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The major pentatonic scale begins with a major scale and omits the fourth and the seventh scale degrees.
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In his solos, he often superimposed highly complex permutations of the pentatonic scale and sequences of intervals that modulated unpredictably through numerous key centers.
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The use of pentatonic scale patterns frees the violin from a strong tonal centre, and expresses impressionistic elements.
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Except for some mild, localized chromaticism and a short pentatonic passage, the entire piece uses the whole tone scale.
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It is an "audava" rgam (or "owdava", meaning pentatonic scale).
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A pentatonic flute crafted from a child's femur was recovered from one of the temples and is also indicative of human sacrifice.
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The tone areas are hammered by hand and are usually in a pentatonic scale comprising ten to twelve notes.
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