A scale is a sequence of notes (known as ‘degrees’) that provides the raw material for a piece of music. The intervals between the notes follow a set pattern that depends on the type of scale. The ...

While major and minor scales have seven notes, pentatonic scales have only five. Essentially a major scale minus the 4th and 7th – C D E G A – the major pentatonic is a staple of folk, blues, rock and ...

Going back to the piano keyboard, the notes are arranged in order from the lowest on the furthest left, up to the highest on the furthest right. So, to the right of the white note A, you would find a ...

Solmization, the practice of assigning syllables to the different “steps” of the musical scale, originated in ancient India. Fast forward a few thousand years to 6th-century Spain, when ...

COLOR NOTES: In Newton’s color wheel, in which the colors are arranged clockwise in the order they appear in the rainbow, each “spoke” of the wheel is assigned a letter. These letters correspond to ...

Shyamala miss’s class has begun and she recaps the previous sessions. She also mentions that that all major systems of music were built on the basic scale. “The Sa at the end has the same tone ...

So came about the mediæval Arabic system of 17 notes to the Octave, from which 12 scales ... in the chair, Mr. Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S., read a paper on “The Musical Scales of Various ...

As a composer of instrumental guitar-based music, I’m continually challenged with trying to write single-note melodic themes ...