Pandiatonicism

Pandiatonicism is a musical technique of using the diatonic (as opposed to the chromatic) scale without the limitations of functional tonality. Music using this technique is pandiatonic. The term "pandiatonicism" was coined by Nicolas Slonimsky in the second edition of Music since 1900 to describe chord formations of any number up to all seven degrees of the diatonic scale, "used freely in democratic equality" (Kostelanetz 2013, 465). Triads with added notes such as the sixth, seventh, or second (added tone chords) are the most common (Anon. 2001; Kennedy 2006), while the, "most elementary form," is a nonharmonic bass (Andriessen & Schönberger 2006, 57). According to Slonimsky's definition,