Hexatonic

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In music, hexatonic means that there are six different tones within an octave in a scale or a set of tones .

Main contributions: Alternating six levels , hexachord

A common hexatonic scale is the Blue Scale , consisting of a minor -Pentatonik plus the tritone is. A special example is the whole-tone scale , which also contains six tones per octave, but can only be transposed to a limited extent .

Hexatonic is seldom found in the European musical tradition because it always formed diatonic ladders. The two more commonly used counterparts to hexatonic are pentatonic  (5 tones per octave) and heptatonic  (7 tones per octave).