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major scale
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1. One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is:

#: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.

:In the key of C Major, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.

Related terms
scale
minor scale
modal scale

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