Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
How a scale is a choice of notes
A scale is a chosen set of pitches inside the octave, not every note an instrument can make.
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From the opening
A scale is an ordered selection of pitches inside an octave, treated as the working set for a melody or a key. It is a choice, because other pitches are available and this set, rather than those, is the one the music will treat as home territory. The opening covers seven notes are not the whole keyboard, modes move the center, and leaving the scale requires a scale.
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Inside
- Seven notes are not the whole keyboard
- Modes move the center
- Leaving the scale requires a scale
- A listing is not a melody
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Major and minor as selected step patterns
- Modes, pentatonic scales, and other pitch selections