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  2. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of musical scales and modes. ... diminished: whole tone — Augmented scale: ... Half diminished scale: Half diminished scale on C.

  3. Half diminished scale - Wikipedia

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    The half diminished scale is a seven-note musical scale. It is more commonly known as the Locrian ♯ 2 scale [1] or the Aeolian ♭ 5 scale, names that avoid confusion with the diminished scale and the half-diminished seventh chord (minor seventh, diminished fifth). It is the sixth mode of the ascending melodic minor scale.

  4. Whole-tone scale - Wikipedia

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    In music, a whole-tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole tone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, there are only two complementary whole-tone scales, both six-note or hexatonic scales. A single whole-tone scale can also be thought of as a "six-tone equal temperament".

  5. Octatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Other relevant features of the piece include the groups of three notes taken from the whole-half diminished scale in mm. 12–18. In these measures, the right hand features D ♭, E ♭, and G ♭, the tetrachord without the 3rd (F). The left hand has the same tetrachord transposed down a tritone (G, A, C).

  6. Scale (music) - Wikipedia

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    "The number of the notes that make up a scale as well as the quality of the intervals between successive notes of the scale help to give the music of a culture area its peculiar sound quality." [6] "The pitch distances or intervals among the notes of a scale tell us more about the sound of the music than does the mere number of tones." [7]

  7. Half-diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, the half-diminished seventh chord (also known as a half-diminished chord or a minor seventh flat five chord) is a seventh chord composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭ 3, ♭ 5, ♭ 7).

  8. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    Because of the repetition of the interval pattern after only two notes, each note in the scale can be the root in another symmetric diminished scale. For example, the C diminished scale of the half-step-first type, has the same notes as the half-step-first E ♭ diminished scale as well as the whole-step-first D ♭ diminished scale.

  9. Minor scale - Wikipedia

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    This pattern of whole and half steps characterizes the natural minor scales. The intervals between the notes of a natural minor scale follow the sequence below: whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole. where "whole" stands for a whole tone (a red u-shaped curve in the figure), and "half" stands for a semitone (a red angled line in the ...