Re: ot-ish: musical scales question

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David wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 11:26:56 +0100
James Morris <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So the major pentatonic in C is the minor pentatonic in A?

Yes, but I think you have a typo in your array :

  { "Major Pentatonic",   { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0 }},
  { "Minor Pentatonic",   { 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0 }},

The minor pentatonic scale should be :

{ 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0 }


Yes, that's one. However, "minor pentatonic" describes only two factors, that the 3rd is flatted and that there are five tones to the scale. The interval structure is not fixed, i.e. there are many possible pentatonic scales. Persichetti's book includes a nice mini-catalog of useful pentatonic scales.

Best,

dp

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