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Musical Scales, Ethnic & Otherwise

198 different (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 tone) musical scales from around the world -- cross referenced to 95 ethnic and regional usages. Listed by intervals, relation to the Major Scale, separate tone groups, and relations to other scales. Written at a level for even beginning music lovers but going into depths -- cycling the intervals of modes -- even cycling scale intervals in retrograde inversion, and other interesting ways. Shows how to change scales by changing the number or type of tones. It started as a game and just grew! 198 different scales given numbers by their relation to the Major Scale (the Major being #1) and are then listed in various way: by number, by intervals, by their first tetrachord, by their alternate symbols (is that a C sharp or a D flat? both ways are there), etc. Then they are put into retrograde-inversions, modal series, and any other way I could think of (I had so much fun!). There is a section strictly on the 167 scales for which I was able to find an ethnic use. In this section I list the ethnic scales both by the countries-with-scales and scales-with-countries and in other interesting ways. There is a section on the diantonic modes. But the gem of this

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