Chromatic scale
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The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below another. On a modern piano or other equal-tempered instrument, all the semitones are the same size (100 cents). In other words, the notes of an equal-tempered chromatic scale are equally spaced. An equal-tempered chromatic scale is a nondiatonic scale having no tonic because of the symmetry of its equally spaced notes.
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See also
- Chromaticism
- Atonality
- Twelve-tone technique
- 20th century music - Classical
- "All Through the Night (Cole Porter song)"
- "Hicaz Hümâyun Saz Semâisi" - Turkish song, highlighting differences from the twelve-semitone scale
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