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Or the whole-tone scale, which divided the octave into equal intervals?

Careful analysis seems to show that it relies on combinations of evolved modes, like Debussy's whole-tone scale.

Curiously enough, it was written by a music critic who, in his reviews of music, is constantly insisting on the primal importance of melody and harmony, who is an arch foe of the modern programme school and the whole-tone scale of Debussy.

Ms. Carroll’s astral cascades in the whole-tone scale made you imagine the heavens running through the fingers of God “like grains of sand,” as the lyrics put it, while Mr. Leonhart’s bowed bass gave her playing a symphonic platform.

Sometimes a buzzing low note on a tuba, or swelling sustained trombone tones, or some fragment of an ascending whole-tone scale, would break through the texture of murmuring sounds.