Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A vocal technique in which certain tones out of a complete set of tones are omitted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: scale, musical scale
Narrower terms: pentatonic scale, pentatone
History
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