Tritonic Scales
A tritonic scale is a musical scale (music), scale or musical mode, mode with three Musical note, notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic scale, heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale, or a chromatic scale, dodecatonic (chromatic 12-note) scale, both common in modern Western music. Tritonic scales are not common in modern art music, and are generally associated with Indigenous music, indigenous and prehistoric music.Onkar Prasad,Tribal Music: Its Proper Context, in ''Tribal Thought and Culture: Essays in Honour of Surajit Chandra Sinha'', edited by Baidyanath Saraswati, 131–49 (New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1991): 131 (accessed 18 January 2020) Distribution India Early Indian Rig Vedic hymns were tri-tonic, sung in three pitches with no octave: Udatta, Anudatta, and Swarita. Maori In a 1969 study, Mervyn McLean noted that tritonic scales were the most common among the Māori people, Maori tribes he surveyed, comprising 47 ...
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