0 belonging or relating to a major or minor musical scale consisting of five full tones and two semitones
The result was, not unexpectedly, unorganised and quite unlike classical diatonic melodies.
That is, in a section of the piece that used a 7-note diatonic subset, all the pitches had an equal probability of occurring.
The close relationship between the two treatises is suggested by the often similar wordings of the sections on the diatonic intervals and modal theory.
Such an assumption over-simplifies, since to accept it would imply that diatonic, stable tonality inescapably expresses decisive, positive moods.
The diatonic tetrachord is composed of three intervals between four notes: a tone plus a tone plus a hemitone.
One can have, for instance, the diatonic scale, which has a more complex structure than the chromatic scale.
The results at this stage showed clear evidence of diatonic and rhythmic order; however, this was very sporadic.
The first is the equivalency of the ' ' diatonic,' ' ' ' modal' ' and ' ' octatonic' ' passages.
