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pentatonic scale
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musical scale with 5 pitches per octave
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- Pentatonic musical scales
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- blues scale
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- pentachord
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Encyclopedic overview
The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" are based on the major pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pentatonic scale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.