major scale

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Noun

major scale (plural major scales)

1. (music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is:

   tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.

In the key of C Major, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.

Related terms

• minor scale
• modal scale

Translations

• French: gamme majeure, mode majeur
• German: Dur
• Russian: мажо́рная га́мма

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