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The 13 pages that link to Whole-tone scale, each with the reason it gives.

• Claude DebussyRelated: Its symmetrical sound weakens conventional tonal direction in works such as Voiles.

• Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovRelated: Rimsky-Korsakov used its unusual symmetry to evoke magic and otherworldly settings.

• Impressionism in musicRelated: Its symmetry weakens the pull of a single tonal center in characteristic passages.

• TritoneRelated: Its symmetry places tritones between every pair of opposite scale degrees.

• Bix BeiderbeckeRelated: Beiderbecke used whole-tone sonorities in compositions such as 'In a Mist.'

• Russian nationalism in musicRelated: Rimsky-Korsakov used its floating sound to evoke magic and folkloric otherworlds.

• Gustav HolstRelated: Its lack of a leading tone contributes to the floating harmony of “Neptune.”

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un fauneRelated: Debussy’s use of whole-tone sonorities helps loosen the Prelude’s sense of tonal direction.