Music/Anhemitonic
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Anhemitonic
- Describes a scale with no semitones between adjacent steps. From the Greek an- ("without") and hēmitonion ("half tone").
- The opposite is hemitonic: a scale with one or more semitone steps.
- The word is used mostly to separate the two families of pentatonic scale.
- Anhemitonic: Music/Scale/Pentatonic/Major and its modes, including Music/Scale/Pentatonic/Minor.
- Hemitonic: Music/Scale/Hirajoshi and the other Japanese in-scale pentatonics.
- Music/Scale/Whole Tone is also anhemitonic. Every seven-note scale in twelve-tone equal temperament is hemitonic.