diatonic

Example Sentences

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“The apostles of the diatonic world,” he said in April, “have not produced work that measures up to the music of the past.”

From New York Times

Sometimes the music reposes on what seems a soft, lushly diatonic chord, except certain instruments play nearly inaudible high pitches that lend sting to the sonority.

From New York Times

It’s very diatonic; it’s thrillingly orchestrated; it’s rhythmically predictable; it’s affirmative; it’s transparently foursquare.

From New York Times

And yet its 50 minutes of ponderous texts set to fluffy nebulae of diatonic music sometimes felt endless.

From New York Times

Also Korngoldesque are the glinting dissonances that affirm rather than undermine the diatonic harmony, as if putting floodlights on the chords.

From The New Yorker