Glossary of scale properties: Difference between revisions

: The number of steps [[subtend]]ed by a generic interval from the tonic. In conventional music theory, degrees of the diatonic scale are usually given 1-indexed ordinal names just like diatonic intervals themselves, for example ''the fifth degree'' for the degree occupied by the fifth in diatonic. However, in contemporary xenharmonic non-diatonic scale theory, 0-indexed names are preferred: the ''k''-degree is the degree represented by the ''k''-step generic interval from the tonic.