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In music, the acoustic scale, overtone scale, [1] Lydian dominant scale (Lydian ♭ 7 scale), [2] [3] or the Mixolydian ♯ 4 scale is a seven-note synthetic scale. It is the fourth mode of the ascending melodic minor scale .
The Lydian scale can be described as a major scale with the fourth scale degree raised a semitone, making it an augmented fourth above the tonic; e.g., an F-major scale with a B ♮ rather than B ♭. That is, the Lydian mode has the following formula:
Lydian augmented scale, Lydian ♯5 scale: acoustic scale, overtone scale, Lydian dominant scale, Lydian ♭7 scale, Mixolydian ♯4 scale Neapolitan major scale, Dorian ♭2 ♯7 scale Neapolitan major scale, (Dorian ♭2 ♯7 scale) leading whole tone scale, Lydian augmented ♯6 scale: Lydian augmented dominant scale: Lydian dominant ♭6 ...
Acoustic scale or Lydian dominant scale: Acoustic scale on C. Play ...
Ignoring the root, the scales used for each of these four chords would be B Aeolian (natural minor), B Dorian, C♯ Mixolydian, and E Aeolian, respectively. However, from the perspective of pitch axis theory, we consider all scales to have the B root - so we would say that the progression is B Aeolian, B Dorian, B Lydian, and B Phrygian.
Lydian mode on C Play ⓘ. Thirteenth chord constructed from notes of the Lydian mode. Play ⓘ Russell's original six Lydian scales [1] The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953 jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian Chromatic Concept (LCC), or Lydian Chromatic Theory (LCT).
"Pretty Ballerina" was one of the first pop songs to use the Lydian mode in its melody (more specifically the acoustic scale), predating the Beatles' Indian-inspired "Blue Jay Way" and Donovan's "Peregrine".
The escala nordestina (Portuguese: "Northeastern scale") are a body of musical scales commonly used in the music of the Nordeste, the northeastern region of Brazil. The term can apply to several different scales, including the Mixolydian, the Lydian with a flattened seventh (see Acoustic scale), and the Dorian. [1]