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Answer by John Doe for Exactly what does "diatonic" mean?

This is something that gets needlessly convoluted:

Diatonic simply means "belonging to a specific scale". My only references are the ones you've already posted, it's just that the definition gets skewed.

So B is diatonic in the key of C major, but G# is not. Eb is diatonic in the key of C Dorian, but is not diatonic in the key of C Lydian.

Whether a note is diatonic, therefore, depends on the note and the scale in question. You can't answer the question without both pieces of information.


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