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Scale music - Scales in Western music | | Scale music - Scales in Western music: Encyclopedia II - Scale music - Scales in Western music | | Scales in traditional Western music generally consist of seven notes, made up of a root note and six other scale degrees whose pitches lie between the root and the root's first octave. Notes in the commonly used scales (see just below) are separated by whole and half step intervals of tones and semitones (the harmonic minor scale including a three-semitone interval; the pentatonic including two of these).
There are a number of different types of scales used commonly in Western music, including:
The major sca ...
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| | | Scale music: Encyclopedia II - Scale music - Scales in Western music
Scale music - Scales in Western music
Scales in traditional Western music generally consist of seven notes, made up of a root note and six other scale degrees whose pitches lie between the root and the root's first octave. Notes in the commonly used scales (see just below) are separated by whole and half step intervals of tones and semitones (the harmonic minor scale including a three-semitone interval; the pentatonic including two of these).
There are a number of different types of scales used commonly in Western music, including:
- The major scale (seven notes)
- The minor scale (seven notes)
- The chromatic scale (twelve notes)
- The modal scales (seven notes)
- The whole tone scale (six notes)
- The pentatonic scale (five notes)
Synthetic scales:
- The diminished scales (also known as octatonic)
- The altered scale
- The Phrygian dominant scale (also called "Spanish" or "Jewish")
- The Arabic scale
- The psychoacoustical scales
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