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  2. Minor scale - Wikipedia

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    the ascending melodic minor scale or jazz minor scale (also known as the Ionian ♭ 3 or Dorian ♯ 7): This form of the scale is also the 5th mode of the acoustic scale. the descending melodic minor scale: This form is identical to the natural minor scale . The ascending and descending forms of the A melodic minor scale are shown below:

  3. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from Western European classical music, including the diatonic, whole-tone, octatonic (or diminished), and the modes of the ascending melodic minor. All of these scales were commonly used by late nineteenth and early twentieth-century composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov , Debussy , Ravel and Stravinsky ...

  4. Jazz minor scale - Wikipedia

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    5-34. The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used. As the name implies, it is primarily used in jazz [citation needed], although it may be found in other types of music as well. It may be derived from the major scale with a minor third, [1 ...

  5. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Aeolian mode or natural minor scale: Aeolian on C. ... 5 — — Usual Melodic minor scale: The A melodic minor scale, ascending and descending, on A.

  6. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    The Dorian mode corresponds to the natural minor scale with a major sixth. The Phrygian mode corresponds to the natural minor scale with a minor second. The Locrian is neither a major nor a minor mode because, although its third scale degree is minor, the fifth degree is diminished instead of perfect.

  7. Phrygian dominant scale - Wikipedia

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    In music, the Phrygian dominant scale (or the Phrygian ♮3 scale) is the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale, the fifth being the dominant. [1] Also called the harmonic dominant, altered Phrygian scale, dominant flat 2 flat 6 (in jazz), or Freygish scale (also spelled Fraigish [2]). It resembles the Phrygian mode but with a major third ...

  8. Harmonic minor scale - Wikipedia

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    Harmonic minor scale. The harmonic minor scale (or Aeolian ♮7 scale) is a musical scale derived from the natural minor scale, with the minor seventh degree raised by one semitone to a major seventh, [2][3][4] creating an augmented second between the sixth and seventh degrees. Thus, a harmonic minor scale is represented by the following ...

  9. Aeolian dominant scale - Wikipedia

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    The Aeolian dominant scale (Aeolian ♯3 scale), Mixolydian ♭6 scale, descending melodic major scale, or Hindu scale[1][2] is the fifth mode of the ascending melodic minor scale. It is named Aeolian dominant because its sound derives from having a dominant seventh chord on the tonic in the context of what is otherwise the Aeolian mode.