pentatonic in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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The tuning of modern flutes is typically pentatonic.
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It is an "audava" rgam (or "owdava" rgam, meaning pentatonic scale).
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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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The tone areas are hammered by hand and are usually in a pentatonic scale comprising ten to twelve notes.
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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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Commentators thus tend to identify diatonic and pentatonic stacks as tone clusters only when they consist of four or more successive notes in the scale.
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The music, based on the pentatonic scale, has some resemblance to blues.
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One feature of the quartet is the extensive use of the pentatonic scale, common in the music of spirituals and other ethnic musics worldwide.
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This scale sometimes includes supplementary notes, but the core remains pentatonic.
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It is a pentatonic scale (uses 5 notes in ascending and descending scale).
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