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Flamenco music uses the Phrygian scale together with a modified scale from the Arab maqām Ḥijāzī [5] [6] (like the Phrygian dominant but with a major sixth scale degree), [citation needed] and a bimodal configuration using both major and minor second and third scale degrees. [6]
In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale [1] relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin. Degrees are useful for indicating the size of intervals and chords and whether an interval is major or minor .
The extremes of the meantone systems encountered in historical practice are the Pythagorean tuning, where the whole tone corresponds to 9:8, i.e. (3:2) 2 / 2 , the mean of the major third (3:2) 4 / 4 , and the fifth (3:2) is not tempered; and the 1 ⁄ 3-comma meantone, where the fifth is tempered to the extent that three ...
List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
Just major third. Pythagorean major third, i.e. a ditone Comparison, in cents, of intervals at or near a major third Harmonic series, partials 1–5, numbered Play ⓘ.. In classical music, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major third (Play ⓘ) is a third spanning four half steps or two whole steps. [1]
For example, in a C major scale the first note is C, the second D, the third E and so on. Two notes can also be numbered in relation to each other: C and E create an interval of a third (in this case a major third); D and F also create a third (in this case a minor third).
In Classical music theory, a Neapolitan chord (or simply a "Neapolitan") is a major chord built on the lowered second scale degree. In Schenkerian analysis, it is known as a Phrygian II, [1] since in minor scales the chord is built on the notes of the corresponding Phrygian mode. The Neapolitan is found far more often in minor keys than in ...
The resulting scale is, however, minor in quality, because, as the D becomes the new tonal centre, the F a minor third above the D becomes the new mediant, or third degree. Thus, when a triad is built upon the tonic, it is a minor triad. The modern Dorian mode is equivalent to the natural minor scale (or the Aeolian mode) but with a major sixth.