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ARTICLES RELATED TO Scale music - Scale degrees | | | |  Scale music - Scale degrees: Encyclopedia II - Scale music - Scale degreesA scale degree is a numeric position of a note within a scale ordered by increasing pitch. The simplest system is to name each degree after its numerical position in the scale, for example: the first, the fourth. Because intervals are inclusive, a fifth describes a note which is four notes after the tonic.
Major scales have seven notes which are named, in order: tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading-tone (or leading-note). Also commonly used is the "movable do" solfege naming convention in which each scale degree is given a syllable. In the major scale, the solfege syllables are: Do ...
See also:Scale music, Scale music - Scales in Western music, Scale music - Scale degrees, Scale music - On the Origin of Scales, Scale music - Non-Western scales, Scale music - Microtonal scales, Scale music - Jazz and blues, Scale music - Chords, Scale music - Patterns, Scale music - Psychoacoustical scales, Scale music - Source Read more here: » Scale music: Encyclopedia II - Scale music - Scale degrees |
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| | | | Scale music - Scale degrees: 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 ...
See also:Scale music, Scale music - Scales in Western music, Scale music - Scale degrees, Scale music - On the Origin of Scales, Scale music - Non-Western scales, Scale music - Microtonal scales, Scale music - Jazz and blues, Scale music - Chords, Scale music - Patterns, Scale music - Psychoacoustical scales, Scale music - Source Read more here: » Scale music: Encyclopedia II - Scale music - Scales in Western music |
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