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pandiatonic

pandiatonic adjective: formed freely from all degrees of a diatonic scale without regard for their diatonic function, sometimes to the extent of no single pitch being felt as a tonic.

Adjective

pandiatonic (comparative more pandiatonic, superlative most pandiatonic)

  1. Formed freely from all degrees of a diatonic scale without regard for their diatonic function, sometimes to the extent of no single pitch being felt as a tonic.

Forms of pandiatonic

comparativemore pandiatonic
superlativemost pandiatonic

Origin of pandiatonic

From pan- + diatonic, coined by Nicolas Slonimsky.

Words formed from pandiatonic

Questions about pandiatonic

What does pandiatonic mean?
Pandiatonic means formed freely from all degrees of a diatonic scale without regard for their diatonic function, sometimes to the extent of no single pitch being felt as a tonic.
What part of speech is pandiatonic?
Pandiatonic is an adjective.

Words near pandiatonic in the dictionary

  1. pandiabolism
  2. pandiagonal
  3. pandiagonal magic square
  4. pandiagonal magic squares
  5. pandialectal
  6. pandiatonic
  7. pandiatonicism
  8. pandiculate
  9. pandiculated
  10. pandiculates
  11. pandiculating

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