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  2. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations [ 2 ] and are still used in various musical styles to this day.

  3. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    The A melodic minor scale, ascending and descending, on A. Play ... Minor pentatonic scale on A. Play ...

  4. We Insist! - Wikipedia

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    We Insist! is an avant-garde jazz album and a vocal-instrumental suite on themes related to the Civil Rights Movement. [8] It incorporates aspects of avant-garde trends during the 1960s, including the use of a pianoless ensemble, screaming vocals on "Protest", and moments of collective improvisation, such as at the end of "Tears for Johannesburg". [9]

  5. Seven Days (Sting song) - Wikipedia

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    The verses follow a chord progression of C6/9 – Eb6/9(#11) – Bb6/9 – G9 – F6/9, all of which are built around major triads and ninth chord extensions within the C minor pentatonic scale. [5] A chromatically ascending chord progression is included within the chorus, which only lands on the tonic C note at the conclusion of the section.

  6. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    This is seen, for example, in melodic minor scale harmony, which is based on the seven rotations of the ascending melodic minor scale, yielding some interesting scales as shown below. The "chord" row lists tetrads that can be built from the pitches in the given mode [ 80 ] (in jazz notation , the symbol Δ is for a major seventh ).

  7. Category:Atritonic scales - Wikipedia

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    Major pentatonic scale; Minor pentatonic scale; Y. Yo scale This page was last edited on 18 January 2020, at 07:30 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  8. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...

  9. Japanese mode - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music.The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to ...