5.1 Scales from Around the World
5.1.1 What Scales Have In Common: Tones In Simple Frequency
Ratios
5.1.2 Major Pentatonic Scale
5.1.3 Minor Pentatonic Scale
5.1.4 Why
“Similar” Scales Sound So Different: The Staircase Analogy
5.1.5 Blues Scale
5.1.6 An Arabic Scale
5.1.7 Indian or Whole Tone Scale: An Equal-interval Scale That
Works
5.1.8 A Chinese Pentatonic Scale
5.1.9 Hungarian Gypsy (Roma) Scale
5.2 The Modes: Scales of the Diatonic
Order
5.2.1 The Diatonic Order: A Distinctive Pattern of Tones and
Semitones
5.2.2 Flavours of the Diatonic Order
5.2.3 Church a la Mode
5.2.4 Some Popular Songs with Church Mode Melodies
5.2.5 More Scales Than a Catfish (2,047 to be Exact)
5.2.6 Why the Church Modes Didn’t Make the Big Time
5.3 Keys, Major and Minor
5.3.1 The Two Surviving Modes
5.3.2 Keys and Scales
5.3.3
Music’s “Theory of Relativity” (Not to be Confused with Cultural Relativism)
5.3.4 All 12 Major Scales In One Convenient Table
5.3.5 All 12 Descending Melodic Minor Scales In One Convenient
Table
5.3.6 All 12 Ascending Melodic Minor Scales In One Convenient
Table
5.3.7 All 12 Harmonic Minor Scales In One Convenient Table
5.3.8 How
Digger’s 10-Note “Grand Minor Scale” Simplifies Matters
5.3.9 Relative Numbers of Popular Songs In Major Keys, Minor
Keys, and Modes
5.3.10 Emotional Effects of Modes
5.4 Tuning, Temperament, and
Transposing
5.4.1 “How Come I Can’t Tune this #@*&!% Thing?”
5.4.2 Don’t Lose Your Equal Temperament
5.4.3 “It’s Too Low (or High) for My Voice”:
Transposition
5.4.4 How Transposing Instruments Work
5.5 Modulation and Tonality
5.5.1 The Keys, They Are A-changin’ (Good Thing,
Too)
5.5.2 A Brief, Star Spangled Modulation
5.5.3 Signalling a Shift In Tonal Centre
5.5.4 “The Centre Cannot Hold” (Or Can It?)
5.5.5 Keys in Cozy Relationships
5.5.6 Octaves and Fifths: Simple Frequency Ratios, Close
Relatives
5.5.7 Why
Heinichen’s Circle of Fifths, While Somewhat Useful, Is Often Misunderstood and
Misused
5.5.8 Tonality and Tonal Music
5.5.9 Distinguishing Tonal Music from Modal Music and Atonal
Music
5.5.10 Emotional Effects of Tonality
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TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture Introduction
1. W-5 of Music
2. Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3. Tones/Overtones
4. Scales/Intervals
5. Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6. Chords/
Progressions
7. Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8. Phrase/Form
9. Melody
10. Lyrics
11. Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12. Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
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