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A ring of twelve is sometimes augmented with a 5♯ and 6♭ to make a 10 note harmonic minor scale from bell 2 to bell 11 (for example, Worcester Cathedral). [4] The Hungarian minor scale is similar to the harmonic minor scale but with a raised 4th degree.
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
A harmonic minor scale can be built by lowering the 3rd and 6th degrees of the parallel major scale by one semitone. Because of this construction, the 7th degree of the harmonic minor scale functions as a leading tone to the tonic because it is a semitone lower than the tonic, rather than a whole tone lower than the tonic as it is in natural ...
The Western chromatic scale has been modified into twelve equal semitones, which is slightly out of tune with many of the harmonics, especially the 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics. In the late 1930s, composer Paul Hindemith ranked musical intervals according to their relative dissonance based on these and similar harmonic relationships.
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The A harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are: The A harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:
The Phrygian dominant scale (a mode of the harmonic minor scale) The Arabic scales; The Hungarian minor scale; The Byzantine music scales (called echoi) The Persian scale; Scales such as the pentatonic scale may be considered gapped relative to the diatonic scale. An auxiliary scale is a scale other than the
Harmonic flat Lowers the pitch of a note to a pitch matching the indicated number in the harmonic series of the root (bottom) of the chord. The diagram shows a specific example, the septimal flat , in the context of a septimal minor third , in which the E ♭ is tuned exactly to a 7:6 frequency ratio with the root (C).
E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F ♯, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp , on the F. Its relative major is G major and its parallel major is E major .