Hexatonic scale

Hexatonik means in music that six different sounds present in a scale or an Tonvorrat within one octave.

Main contributions: Alternating Sechsstufigkeit, Hexachord

The two more commonly used counterparts of this concept are pentatonic and heptatonic, and they mean a Tonvorrat of 5 or 7 tones per octave. A common hexatonic scale is the blues scale (see blue notes ), consisting of a minor pentatonic scale plus the tritone.

A particular example is the whole-tone scale. Also, it contains six notes per octave, but is only limited transposable.

Hexatonik is generally rare in the European musical tradition, as they always diatonic leaders trained.

• Musical theory