Tritonic scale

 ( Musical Scales ) 

A tritonic scale is a musical scale or musical mode with three Musical note per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic scale (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale, or a chromatic scale (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 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)

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Distribution

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India Early Indian Rig Vedic hymns were tri-tonic, sung in three pitches with no octave: Udatta, Anudatta, and Swarita.

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Maori In a 1969 study, Mervyn McLean noted that tritonic scales were the most common among the Maori tribes he surveyed, comprising 47% of the scales used.

Mervyn McLean (1996). 9781869401443, Auckland University Press. . ISBN 9781869401443

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South America The pre-Hispanic herranza ritual music of the Andes is generally tritonic, based on a major triad, and played on the waqra phuku trumpet, violin, and singer with a tinya drum. The tritonic scale is largely limited to this ritual and to some southern Peruvian Carnival music.

Raúl R. Romero (2001). 9780195138818, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780195138818

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See also

• One-third octave
• Tritone

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