Whole tone scale

Music

Music is an art, entertainment [i], or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds a ...

, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note

Note

A note is a sign used in music [i] to represent the relative duration and pitch [i] of sound. ...

is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step. There are only two whole tone scales, both hexachords, each using half of the pitches in the chromatic scale

Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitch [i]es of the Western tempered [i] ...

: * Use of the melodic whole tone scale can be traced at least as far back as Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and highly influential composer [i] of Classical music [i] ...

, in his Musical Joke A Musical Joke

Divertimento for two horns and strings, A Musical Joke, K....

, for strings and horns.

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Music

Music is an art, entertainment [i], or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds a ...

, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note

Note

A note is a sign used in music [i] to represent the relative duration and pitch [i] of sound....

is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step. There are only two whole tone scales, both hexachords, each using half of the pitches in the chromatic scale

Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitch [i]es of the Western tempered [i] ...

:
Use of the melodic whole tone scale can be traced at least as far back as Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart