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  2. Octatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The two modes are sometimes referred to as the half-step/whole step diminished scale and the whole step/half-step diminished scale. [10] Because it was associated in the early 20th century with the Dutch composer Willem Pijper, in the Netherlands it is called the Pijper scale. [11]

  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. Mode of limited transposition - Wikipedia

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    Starting on any degree of the mode gives the same sequence of intervals, and therefore the whole tone scale has only 1 mode. Messiaen's mode 2, or the diminished scale, consists of semitone, tone, semitone, tone, semitone, tone, semitone, tone, which can only be arranged 2 ways, starting with either a tone or a semitone. Therefore, mode 2 has ...

  5. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Use of key signature usual or unusual ... Half diminished scale: Half diminished scale on C. ... Slendro on C compared to a whole tone scale on C.

  6. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    in a major key: in a minor key: ... leading whole tone scale, ... major Locrian scale: half-diminished ♭4 scale, altered dominant ♯2 scale: altered dominant 3 scale

  7. Locrian mode - Wikipedia

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    Its tonic chord is a diminished triad (B dim = B dim 5 min 3 = B D F, in the Locrian mode using the white-key diatonic scale with starting note B, corresponding to a C major scale starting on its 7th tone). This mode's diminished fifth and the Lydian mode's augmented fourth are the only modes that contain a tritone as a note in their modal scale.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Key signature - Wikipedia

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    Starting the major scale pattern (whole step, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half) on C requires no sharps or flats. Proceeding clockwise in the diagram starts the scale a fifth higher, on G. Starting on G requires one sharp, F ♯, to form a major scale. Starting another fifth higher, on D, requires F ♯ and C ♯. This pattern continues ...