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List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
C minor is a minor scale based on C, ... Tonic – C minor; Supertonic – D diminished; ... Piano Sonata in C minor, K. 457;
Its tonic chord is a diminished triad (B dim = B dim 5 min 3 = B D F, in the Locrian mode using the white-key diatonic scale with starting note B, corresponding to a C major scale starting on its 7th tone). This mode's diminished fifth and the Lydian mode's augmented fourth are the only modes that contain a tritone as a note in their modal scale.
The half diminished scale is a seven-note musical scale. It is more commonly known as the Locrian ♯ 2 scale [1] or the Aeolian ♭ 5 scale, names that avoid confusion with the diminished scale and the half-diminished seventh chord (minor seventh, diminished fifth). It is the sixth mode of the ascending melodic minor scale.
super Locrian 7 scale, altered diminished scale: harmonic minor, Aeolian harmonic (♮7) scale: Locrian harmonic (♮6) scale: Ionian harmonic (♯5) scale, augmented major scale Dorian harmonic (♭5) scale Dorian harmonic (♭5) scale, Locrian ♮2 ♮6 scale: altered dominant ♮5 scale, Phrygian harmonic (♭4) scale: melodic minor ♯4 scale,
These scales contain all three notes of a minor triad: the root, a minor third (rather than the major third, as in a major triad or major scale), and a perfect fifth (rather than the diminished fifth, as in a diminished scale or half diminished scale).
In major scales, a diminished triad occurs only on the seventh scale degree. For instance, in the key of C, this is a B diminished triad (B, D, F). Since the triad is built on the seventh scale degree, it is also called the leading-tone triad. This chord has a dominant function.
Because of the repetition of the interval pattern after only two notes, each note in the scale can be the root in another symmetric diminished scale. For example, the C diminished scale of the half-step-first type, has the same notes as the half-step-first E ♭ diminished scale as well as the whole-step-first D ♭ diminished scale.