Editing Pentatonic scale (section)

=== In classical music ===
Examples of its use include:

[[Beethoven]], [[String Quartet No. 16 (Beethoven)|Quartet in F major, Op. 135]], finale: [[File:Beethoven Quartet Op 135, finale bars 250-7.wav|thumb|Beethoven Quartet Op 135, finale bars 250-7]] [[File:Beethoven Quartet Op 135, finale bars 250-8.png|thumb|centre|500px|Beethoven Quartet Op 135, finale bars 250-7]]

[[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]'s [[Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin)|Etude in G-flat major, Op. 10, No. 5]], the "Black Key" etude,<ref name="B&S" /> in the major pentatonic.[[File:Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 5.wav|thumb|Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 5]] [[File:Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 5.png|thumb|center|500px|Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 5]]

Western Impressionistic composers such as French composer [[Claude Debussy]]<ref name="O'Connell">{{cite journal |last1=Jeremy Day-O'Connell |title=Debussy, Pentatonicism, and the Tonal Tradition |journal=Music Theory Spectrum |date=2009 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=225–261 |url=https://www.skidmore.edu/music/documents/Day-OConnell_Debussy_Pentatonicism.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.skidmore.edu/music/documents/Day-OConnell_Debussy_Pentatonicism.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |doi=10.1525/mts.2009.31.2.225 |doi-access=free}}</ref> and [[Maurice Ravel]] used the pentatonic scale extensively in their works.

[[File:Debussy Voiles, Preludes, Book I, no. 2, mm.43-45.png|500px|thumb|center|Pentatonic scale in [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]]'s ''[[Voiles]]'', Preludes, Book I, no. 2, mm.&nbsp;43–45.<ref>Bruce Benward and Marilyn Nadine Saker, ''Music in Theory and Practice'', eighth edition (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2009): vol. II, p.&nbsp;245. {{ISBN|978-0-07-310188-0}}.</ref>[[File:Debussy Voiles, Preludes, Book I, no. 2, mm.43-45.mid]]]] [[File:Ravel Ma Mere l'Oye Laideronnette Imperatricedes Pagodes m.9-13.png|500px|thumb|center|Pentatonic scale in [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]'s ''[[Ma mère l'Oye]]'' III. "Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes", mm.&nbsp;9–13.<ref name="B&S" />[[File:Ravel Ma Mere l'Oye Laideronnette Imperatricedes Pagodes m.9-13.mid]]]]

[[Giacomo Puccini]] used pentatonic scales in his operas ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' and ''[[Turandot]]'' to imitate east Asian musical styles. Puccini also used [[Whole tone scale|whole-tone scales]] in the former to evoke similar ideas.