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Pentatonic music is music written on a pentatonic scale.

If you look on a piano keyboard and find a set of 2 black keys and a set of 3 black keys next to each other, that makes a pentatonic scale.

Many hymns and a lot of American folk tunes use a pentatonic scale, some good examples are "Amazing Grace", "Jesus Loves Me", "Mary Had a Little Lamb", "Old MacDonald". The main theme of the second movement of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" is also a pentatonic melody.

It is possible to play any pentatonic melody on just the black keys of a piano.

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