Musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic ( Irish / Scottish / Manx ) and the Brythonic ( Breton / Welsh / Cornish ) branches, which differentiate " mostly by the extended range ( sometimes more than two octaves ) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies ( often reduced to a half-octave ), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music.

Impressionist harmonic is also about using pentatonic scale, whole-tone scale and Greek or church modes.

Vaughan Williams ' music utilizes melodies and harmonies found in English folk music, such as the pentatonic scale and modes, making it perfectly suited to the polarity-breaking ideals of the impressionist movement, which began moving away from the Major-minor based tonality of the Romantic composers.

In the 1970s and 1980s, with jazz-rock fusion guitar playing, jazz guitarists incorporated rock guitar soloing approaches, such as riff-based soloing and usage of pentatonic and blues scale patterns.

Built around a quasi-Japanese pentatonic scale, the music contrasts Japanese contemplation (" There is No Other Way ") with Western ingenuousness (" Please Hello ").

Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.

The amadinda is made of twelve logs which are tuned in a pentatonic scale.

The player may also use the many different pentatonic scales within the scale such as C minor pentatonic, F major pentatonic and G minor pentatonic.

Most historians agree that Dvořák is referring to the pentatonic scale, which is typical of each of these musical traditions.

A pentatonic scale, which coincides with the major pentatonic scale of Western musical disciplines, is often heard in min ' yō from the main islands of Japan, see minyō scale.

In this pentatonic scale the subdominant and leading tone ( scale degrees 4 and 7 of the Western major scale ) are omitted, resulting in a musical scale with no half-steps between each note.

( Do, Re, Mi, So, La in solfeggio, or scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 ) Okinawan min ' yō, however, is characterized by scales that include the half-steps omitted in the aforementioned pentatonic scale, when analyzed in the Western discipline of music.

Perhaps best-known from the province is the lusheng, a type of mouth organ, used by the Miao people of Guizhou for pentatonic antiphonal courting songs.

The chief pentatonic scale used in mainland Japan, for example, uses scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, also known as Do, Re, Mi, So, and La in the Kodaly system of solfeggio.

Common structures used in Ryukyuan music are a pentatonic scale utilizing scale degrees 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, or Do, Mi, Fa, So, Ti, or a hexatonic scale with the addition of the second scale degree, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, or Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti.

They are generally played using a pentatonic scale similar to the Indonesian slendro, although in the Philippines, sets also come in the diatonic and minor scales used to perform various Spanish-influenced folk music in addition to native songs in pentatonic.

Note that a pentatonic scale is normally used in Traditional Chinese music, so " all the notes of the scale " in this case are 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6.

The lusheng is a type of mouth organ used by the Miao of Guizhou for pentatonic antiphonal courtship songs.

This is because the notes of the G pentatonic scale ( a commonly used scale in blues and rock ) are more easily accessible on a C-tuned harmonica.

Bartók studied over 300 melodies, and noted that more modern tunes used for dancing featured pentatonic turns with frequent leaps in fourths.

The song is a simple, pentatonic melody ( that can be played exclusively with black keys on a piano ) in which Archie and Edith wax nostalgic for the simpler days of yesteryear.

Nettl identifies two " essential features " of Hungarian folk music to be the use of " pentatonic scales composed of major seconds and minor thirds " ( or " gapped scales ") and " the practice of transposing a bit of melody several times to create the essence of a song ".

Dances are usually accompanied by songs composed for the occasion ( marriage, birth, nationally important occasion ), and reflect the traditional structure of the Kikamba song, sung on a pentatonic scale.

Musically, the song is notable because the six ascending guitar notes in the opening riff over the C chord are a perfect example of a C major pentatonic scale, played exactly from octave to octave.

Similarly, the analogous riff in the song that is played over the F chord is a perfect example of an F major pentatonic scale, also with notes ascending from octave to octave.

The song " Guard the Isle Eternally " ( 永固邦稷 ) was the first Chthonic song to mix Asian pentatonic scale melodies with black metal.

The paraphrasing of these pieces is especially clear in the opening bars of the piece, where motives from the three main sources interweave to create an American-sounding pentatonic melody, typical of the 19th century American song.

The song melody uses four notes of the five-note pentatonic scale, first rising, then falling.

Early versions of the song notably utilised Harrison's pentatonic electric piano and Telecaster, as well as the boogying saxophones.

One of Tatum's innovations was his extensive use of the pentatonic scale, which may have inspired later pianists to further mine its possibilities as a device for soloing.

Post-haqibah, like haqibah, was based on the pentatonic scale.

Later, he discovered to his surprise that this was exactly the same as the Japanese Kumayoshi mode, which is also known as the Japanese pentatonic scale

The melodic deviation was rising in a pentatonic style chord then dropping in similar pentatonic step wise motion until the melody arrived back at the tonic, in a wave type phrase ( Figure 2 ).

He describes the structural characteristics of California-Yuman music, including that of Pomo, Miwak, Luiseno, Catalineno, and Gabrielino, and the Yuman tribes, including, Mohave, Yuman, Havasupai, Maricopa, as using the rise in almost all songs, a relaxed nonpulsating vocal technique ( like European classical music ), a relatively large amount of isorhythmic material, some isorhythmic tendencies, simple rhythms, pentatonic scales without semitones, an average melodic range of an octave, sequence, and syncopated figures such as a sixteenth-note, eight-note, sixteenth-note figure.

Apart from the major pentatonic scale two further tones, corresponding to a ( sharp ) perfect fourth and a ( flat ) major seventh, are employed.

The hexatonic, or six note, blues scale consists of the minor pentatonic scale plus the 4th or 5th degree.

However, while elsewhere in China such modes are mainly defined by absolute pitch and by the degree of the pentatonic scale that is taken as the key-note ( thus setting the intervals of the scale ), the xianshi conception of mode, rather like the Indian raga system, includes motif, ornament and intonation.

Usually it's pentatonic ".

The characteristics of this entire area include short iterative phrases, reverting relationships, shouts before, during, and after singing, anhematonic pentatonic scales, simple rhythms and meter and, according to Nettl, antiphonal or responsorial techniques including " rudimentary imitative polyphony ".

The characteristics of this entire area include short iterative phrases, reverting relationships, shouts before, during, and after singing, anhematonic pentatonic scales, simple rhythms and meter and, according to Nettl, antiphonal or responsorial techniques including " rudimentary imitative polyphony ".

The tune, a pentatonic melody, is similar to that of several other works, including the almost identical English tune " Kingsfold ", well known from several popular hymns, such as " Led By the Spirit ".

The sequential three guitar solos rotate through I7 ( A7 chord )- IV7 ( D7 chord ) changes in the key of A in a mix of " major and minor pentatonic scales with slides, doublestops, repeated notes, low-bass string runs and wailing bends ".