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Music
Scales dictionary - SCALES
new Version 4.25 - A Complete Dictionary &
tool for every music scale in the equal
tempered system. |
for
Windows platform only
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A few examples
of scales. Click the button in the right column
to play the scale in a separate window. The
sound is something like a grand piano, but remember
that the main task of the SCALES program is
to study scales, not to perform beautiful sounds. |
| SCALE.
Pictures cut from the running SCALES program. |
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name |
speed
BPM |
play |
This is
the standard whole-halftone scale or dim-scale
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dim |
120 |
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Manu authors
have tried to name this scale, one common
name is "Gypsy scale".
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gypsy I |
190 |
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Gypsy I
rotated - same intervals! This texture
seems to have something "exotic"
in it. Remember however that all such
scales most probably have different intervals
when played on original instruments.
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gypsy II |
190 |
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One wholetone
step diminished in a dim-scale to obtain
a minor third interval (and a minor second).
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whole tone b2 |
126 |
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One of
the standard minor scales.
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minor harm |
280 |
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This scale
has several names, but the most common
traditional name is major pentatonic.
These tones belonging to very ancient
music are still very much loved in many
parts of the world (and will probably
always be).
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major pent |
var. + chord |
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Download
software SCALES63.ZIP ~4.17 Mb
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| ROTATING A COMMON
SCALE OBJECT: LYDIAN - MIXOLYDIAN - LYDIAN IN
THE COMMON DIATONIC MAJOR SCALE |
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© Copyright 20080815
Birka Staff
SCALES is coded in perl, Visual Basic, MASM, and Pascal. Self running tutorial
written in OverLord from Birka Staff. |
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