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scale

Summary

scale is a musical-structural concept[1]. scale ranks in the top 6% of musical_structural_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,495 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • scale's instance of is recorded as musical-structural concept[3].
  • scale is a type of scale[4].
  • scale's Commons category is recorded as Musical scales[5].
  • scale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Musical scales[6].
  • scale's Commons gallery is recorded as Musical scale[7].
  • scale's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • scale's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[9].
  • scale's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • scale's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • scale's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • scale's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[13].
  • scale's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox musical scale[14].
  • scale's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].

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Definition and Type

scale's instance of is recorded as musical-structural concept[3]. scale is a type of scale[4].

Why It Matters

scale ranks in the top 6% of musical_structural_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,495 views/month).[2] scale has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] scale is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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