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A 'hexatonic scale' is a musical scale with six pitches per octave. Famous examples include the whole tone scale, C D E F# G# A# C, the augmented scale, C D# E G Ab B, and what some jazz theory calls the "blues scale", C Eb F F# G Bb C.
The whole-tone scale is primarily associated with the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, who used it in such pieces of his as ''Voiles'' and ''La vent dans la plaine'', both from his first book of piano ''Preludes''.
The augmented scale is so called because it can be thought of as an interlocking combination of two augmented triads a minor second or minor third apart: C E G# and Eb G B. It made one its most celebrated early appearances in Franz Liszt's ''Faust Symphony'' (''Eine Faust Symphonie'').
Since blues notes (or blue notes) are alternate inflections, strictly speaking there can be no one blues scale, but the scale most commonly called "the blues scale" comprises a flatted seventh blues note, a flatted third blues note, a flatted fifth blues note, and the flatted fifth's note of upward resolution along with other pitches derived from the minor pentatonic scale, C Eb F F# G Bb C.
| Contents |
| Whole-tone scale |
| Augmented scale |
| Blues scale |
Whole-tone scale
The whole-tone scale is primarily associated with the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, who used it in such pieces of his as ''Voiles'' and ''La vent dans la plaine'', both from his first book of piano ''Preludes''.
Augmented scale
The augmented scale is so called because it can be thought of as an interlocking combination of two augmented triads a minor second or minor third apart: C E G# and Eb G B. It made one its most celebrated early appearances in Franz Liszt's ''Faust Symphony'' (''Eine Faust Symphonie'').
Blues scale
Since blues notes (or blue notes) are alternate inflections, strictly speaking there can be no one blues scale, but the scale most commonly called "the blues scale" comprises a flatted seventh blues note, a flatted third blues note, a flatted fifth blues note, and the flatted fifth's note of upward resolution along with other pitches derived from the minor pentatonic scale, C Eb F F# G Bb C.
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