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If in a major scale we lower the third and sixth notes

by half a note, it becomes a minor scale (“minor” because


the second and fifth intervals are diminished). Here is
the key of C minor:
C M INOR S CAlE
C D E♭ F G A♭ B Cl
1.11.1.
(the symbol ♭ stands for “flat” to indicate that the note is
lowered by half a tone).1 These two types of scales—the
major and minor diatonic scales—were used almost exclusively
in Western music from about 1600 to the beginning
of the twentieth century, and they are still the scales
most classical music listeners feel comfortable with. We
should mention, however, that there are other scales in
use, such as a pentatonic scale:
PENTATONIC SCAlE
C D F G A Cl
1 1. 1 1 1.
found in much of Asian and African music (the version
shown here, when moved up by a half tone to C♯ D♯ F♯ G♯
A♯, corresponds to the black keys on a piano), or a wholetone
scale, often used by Claude Debussy in the early
twentieth century:
WHOlE- TONE SCAlE
C D E F♯ G♯ A♯ Cl
1 1 1 1 1 1.
To these we must add the chromatic scale, comprising
all twelve semitones of the octave:
CHROMATIC SCAlE
C C♯ D D♯ E F F♯ G G♯ A A♯ B Cl
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