tritonic scale
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A tritonic scale is a musical scale or mode with three notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale, or a dodecatonic (chromatic 12-note) scale, both common in modern Western music. Tritonic scales are not common in modern art music{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}, and are generally associated with indigenous and prehistoric music.Onkar Prasad, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=_qQwmFjoQRIC&pg=PA131 Tribal Music: Its Proper Context]", in Tribal Thought and Culture: Essays in Honour of Surajit Chandra Sinha, edited by Baidyanath Saraswati, 131–49 (New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1991): 131 (accessed 18 January 2020) {{ISBN|978-81-7022-340-5}}
Distribution
=India=
Early Indian Rig Vedic hymns were tri-tonic, sung in three pitches with no octave: Udatta, Anudatta, and Swarita.
=Maori=
In a 1969 study, Mervyn McLean noted that tritonic scales were the most common among the Maori tribes he surveyed, comprising 47% of the scales used.{{cite book|author=Mervyn McLean|title=Māori Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GKnQRp_EafcC&pg=PA239|accessdate=24 June 2012|year=1996|publisher=Auckland University Press|isbn=978-1-86940-144-3|pages=239–}}
=South America=
The pre-Hispanic herranza ritual music of the Andes is generally tritonic, based on a major triad, and played on the waqra phuku trumpet, violin, and singer with a tinya drum. The tritonic scale is largely limited to this ritual and to some southern Peruvian Carnival music.{{cite book|author=Raúl R. Romero|title=Debating the Past: Music, Memory, and Identity in the Andes|url=https://archive.org/details/debatingpastmusi00rome_0|url-access=registration|accessdate=24 June 2012|date=19 July 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-513881-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/debatingpastmusi00rome_0/page/42 42]–}}
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