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Music theory

an eight-note scale of alternating half and whole steps, central to Stravinsky's and other twentieth-century pitch organization.

In music theory, octatonic scale refers to an eight-note scale of alternating half and whole steps, central to Stravinsky's and other twentieth-century pitch organization. This meaning comes from Berger (1963) in Perspectives of New Music.[1]

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Berger, A. (1963). Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky. Perspectives of New Music, 2(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.2307/832252

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