scale comprising only five notes - particularly represented by the five black keys on the piano (or other notes in the same position relative to each other)
A five-tone scale commonly based on the tones do, re, mi, sol, and la.
Term meaning a scale which has five different notes.
Five-note scale and music based on such a scale, found in folk music of many cultures and sometimes in 19th- and 20th- century Western art music.