Harmonic major scale manual#

Nicolas Slonimsky, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, Music Sales America First Edition, 1947, ISBN 978-0-8256-1449-1.

Harmonic major scale manual#

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Practical Manual of Harmony, Carl Fischer, LLC, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8258-5699-0.Peter Burt, The Music of Toru Takemitsu, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-1.Examples are 'After You've Gone', 'Blackbird', 'Sleep Walk', 'Dream A Little Dream Of Me'.

Many popular songs have borrowed chords from the tonality of harmonic major but have not been recognized as doing so. Harmonic major is not commonly taught as a tonality, so chords borrowed from this diatonic tonality are not recognized as readily as those from the tonalities of major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor. Like five of those other six scales, it is a complete circle of thirds starting from the tonic the pattern is MmmmMMm, where M is a major third and m is a minor third. The harmonic major scale is also one of the five proper seven-note scales of equal temperament. This property implies that chords formed by taking every other note from some consecutive subset of the scale are triadic, raising the possibility of using tertian harmony together with melodic material from such a scale. There are only seven such scales in equal temperament, including whole tone, hexatonic from alternating minor thirds and semitones, diatonic, ascending melodic minor, harmonic minor, harmonic major, and octatonic (diminished). the second and fourth note, or the third and fifth note, etc.) are separated by a major or minor third, i.e.

Like the familiar major, melodic minor, and harmonic minor scales, the harmonic major scale has the diatonic thirds property, which means that the interval between notes two steps apart (e.g. ModeД®m (or E since the в™4 can be respelled as 3 (enharmonic equivalent)В 1, в™4, 5) Harmonic minor contains the same types of seventh chords, but in a different order.

Below are the mode names, their degrees, and the following seventh chords that can be built using each modal tonic or degree of the parent mode as the root: a major seventh chord, a half-diminished seventh chord, a minor seventh chord, a minor major seventh chord, a dominant seventh chord, an augmented major seventh chord, and a diminished seventh chord. The harmonic major scale has its own set of modes, distinct from the harmonic minor, melodic minor, and major modes, depending on which note serves as the tonic.