Re: Even More out of tune

[asterion@hell.com]

At 5:57 PM -0500 2/7/04, David Beardsley wrote:

>You're right, but they ARE modes of the major scale.

True, but that's not exactly the same thing as saying that 
"diatonic"= the major scale. It's subtle and nit-picky but a worthy 
distinction to make. I prefer to think of a diatonic scale as a scale 
with a particular pattern of intervals, of which the most common (and 
one may choose to say the primary generative instantiation) is the 
major scale.

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