Synthetic scale, the Glossary
In music, a synthetic scale is a scale that derives from a traditional diatonic major scale by altering of one degree by a semitone in either direction.[1]
Table of Contents
18 relations: Alexander Scriabin, Altered chord, Degree (music), Diatonic scale, Ferruccio Busoni, Harmonic major scale, Heptatonic scale, James Murray Barbour, Jazz minor scale, Major scale, Music, Music theory, Mystic chord, Pentatonic scale, Scale (music), Semitone, Set (music), Whole-tone scale.
- Musical scales
- Post-tonal music theory
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist.
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Altered chord
An altered chord is a chord that replaces one or more notes from the diatonic scale with a neighboring pitch from the chromatic scale.
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Degree (music)
In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.
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Diatonic scale
In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.
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Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.
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Harmonic major scale
In music theory, the harmonic major scale is a musical scale found in some music from the common practice era and now used occasionally, most often in jazz.
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Heptatonic scale
A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave.
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James Murray Barbour
James Murray Barbour (1897–1970) is an American acoustician, musicologist, and composer best known for his work Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey (1951, 2d ed. 1953).
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Jazz minor scale
The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used.
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Major scale
The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.
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Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.
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Mystic chord
In music, the mystic chord or Prometheus chord is a six-note synthetic chord and its associated scale, or pitch collection; which loosely serves as the harmonic and melodic basis for some of the later pieces by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. Synthetic scale and mystic chord are post-tonal music theory.
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Pentatonic scale
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). Synthetic scale and pentatonic scale are musical scales.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency. Synthetic scale and scale (music) are musical scales.
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Semitone
A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
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Set (music)
A set (pitch set, pitch-class set, set class, set form, set genus, pitch collection) in music theory, as in mathematics and general parlance, is a collection of objects.
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Whole-tone scale
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. Synthetic scale and whole-tone scale are post-tonal music theory.
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See also
Musical scales
- Anhemitonic scale
- Chinese musicology
- Chord-scale system
- Chromatic scale
- Chromaticism
- Circle of fifths
- Diatonic and chromatic
- Ditonic scale
- Enharmonic scale
- Escala nordestina
- Euler–Fokker genus
- Gandhara (svara)
- Genus (music)
- Gongche notation
- Gypsy scale
- Harmonic scale
- Harmonization
- Hexatonic scale
- Istrian scale
- Japanese musical scales
- Jazz scale
- List of musical scales and modes
- Major and minor
- Minor scales
- Modes (music)
- Modulation (music)
- Monotonic scale
- Music written in all major or minor keys
- Musica enchiriadis
- Neapolitan scale
- Octave species
- Pentatonic scale
- Pyknon
- Quarter tone
- Rishabha (svara)
- Saptak
- Scale (music)
- Scale degrees
- Scolica enchiriadis
- Shi'er lü
- Slendro
- Svara
- Swaralipi
- Synthetic mode
- Synthetic scale
- Tetrachord
- Tetratonic scale
- Tritonic scale
- Universal key
Post-tonal music theory
- "Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord
- All-interval tetrachord
- Atonality
- Ausmultiplikation
- Chromatic circle
- Chromatic scale
- Cyclic set
- Dynamic tonality
- Emancipation of the dissonance
- Fundamental structure
- Graphic notation (music)
- Klangfarbenmelodie
- Klumpenhouwer network
- List of atonal compositions
- Microtone (music)
- Mixed-interval chord
- Mode of limited transposition
- Modulatory space
- Moment form
- Musical set theory
- Mystic chord
- Octatonic scale
- Polychord
- Polymodal chromaticism
- Post-tonal music theory
- Prolongation
- Psalms chord
- Quartal harmony
- Schillinger system
- Schoenberg hexachord
- Serialism
- Simultaneity (music)
- Spectral music
- Synthetic chord
- Synthetic scale
- Tone clock
- Tone cluster
- Transformational theory
- Tristan chord
- Unified field
- Whole-tone scale