English Explanatory Dictionary

pandiatonic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.

Word forms

pandiatonic more pandiatonic most pandiatonic

Etymology

From pan- + diatonic, coined by Nicolas Slonimsky.

Derived words

pandiatonicism
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