Usually means: Scale consisting entirely of whole steps.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. whole-tone scale: Merriam-Webster
  2. whole-tone scale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whole-tone scale, whole-tone scale: Collins English Dictionary
  4. whole-tone scale: Wiktionary
  5. whole-tone scale: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. whole-tone scale: Dictionary.com
  7. Whole-tone scale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. whole-tone scale: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whole-tone scale: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whole-tone scale)

▸ noun:  (music) a scale with intervals of only whole steps

Similar:
whole tone, octatonic scale, chromatic scale, wholetone, leading tone, modal scale, tone, half tone, diatonic scale, tonality, more...

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whole tone, octatonic scale, chromatic scale, wholetone, leading tone, modal scale, tone, half tone, diatonic scale, tonality, more...



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