Talk:List of musical scales and modes

Guidelines

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music/MUSTARD/Images#Images_and_notation and Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(music)#Images_and_notation. Hyacinth (talk) 22:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Melodic minor

you show the melodic minor with: 1 2 ♭3 4 (♮)5 (♮)6 7 ♭6 ♭5

I think the 5 is still perfect (no tritone)

I think it's:

Ascending: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 (♮)6 (♮)7

Decending: ♭7 ♭6 5 4 ♭3 2 1

Ref: http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textm/Melodicminorscale.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodic_minor_scale

Wamnet (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:33, 2 June 2011 (UTC).

Corrected. Hyacinth (talk) 21:31, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Audio Samples

It appears not all of the audio samples are in the same format. Shouldn't all audio samples be in the same audio and file format and they should be common across as many platforms as possible? --Davjosmes (talk) 20:44, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Melodic minor

The "tritone scale" is listed as having seven pitch classes, but there are only six in the example. Also, the Hungarian minor and Hungarian gypsy scales are identical; one is said to be "unusual," and the other isn't. 192.246.227.163 (talk) 19:24, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Blues scale contradiction

For the Blues scale, the degrees state 1 ♭3 4 ♭5 5 ♭7, but the image displays 1 ♭3 4 ♭5 ♭5 ♭7. Can anyone who knows how to edit the image perform the edit? Thanks Ariana1729 (talk) 12:01, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Gypsy Scale

Does the Hungarian Gypsy scale really need quotes? Yes, Gypsy's sometimes used as a racial slur, but it's not called the "Gypsy"[sic] scale, but the Gypsy scale. 138.251.255.74 (talk) 21:49, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Vietnamese scale of harmonics

I have the strong feeling that for this scale, the soundfile, the score on the image and the degree-number don't fit each other. The soundfile plays the "normal" harmonic scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_of_harmonics) , the score shows the one called vietnamese. Since the harmonic scale already occurs in the list, maybe it would be the best to change the sound file and the "degrees"-field. I unfortunately lack the skill to fix this. Great site and work anyway! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E4:5F1E:8B3F:89EB:5097:1674:BE4 (talk) 13:51, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Non-classical within the modern European system, chordable (playing many notes maintains their mood; because some non-classical musical scales are nonchordable, the co-soundings in them sound arbitrary [unusable])

(mostly black metal, and technical death metal [used with chromatic embellishments/if you overdo the chromatic embellishments, you are off-scale but influenced], jazz, etc.)

Sigil

(has 4 submodes/overall shifts)

• C, C♯, E, F, G♯, A
• C♯, D, F, F♯, A, A♯
• D, D♯, F♯, G, A♯, B
• D♯, E, G, G♯, B, C

(semitonally/fret steps: 0, +1, +3, +1, +3, +1, +3 or 0, +3, +1, +3, +1, +3, +1)

(si = ti, do = C)

mood: mysterious

• Sigil scale (C, C♯, E, F, G♯, A) solo practice for 6 string guitar:

soloing practice on the non-transposed form (thus you can transpose it 3 times one semitone forward each time/thus at the end you will have 4 files, when a note is outside the instrument's range, move it to the nearest note with the same name but different octave):

Sigil scale (C, C♯, E, F, G♯, A) solo practice for 6 string guitar

Evil Shaolin

(has 2 submodes/overall shifts)

• do, re, re#, fa, fa#, sol#, la, si
• do#, re, mi, fa, sol, sol#, la#, si

(semitonally/fret steps: 0, +1, +2, +1, +2, +1, +2, +1, +2)

mood: soft horror (not absolute disharmony; then you should play chromatically and atonally)

they are chordable, so any co-sounding can be a combination within the scale (otherwise it's off-scale - all modes are mentioned here)

Gustave Holst's "Uknown God" scale

This scale is featured for the melody and (prominently descending) in the bass line of "To the Unknown God" in Gustave Holst's "Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda" CharlesHBennett (talk) 00:11, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

(h, m3, w, h, h, w, w). Beginning on C it is (C, Db, E, F#, G, Ab, Bb, C).