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Scale Name Tradition: Chord Names

Names that are usually descriptive of chords, not of scales. Usually given to scales that are particularly sparse, so they seem like tertiary chords in a diatonic scale, and not a scale unto themselves.

73Diminished Triad
133Suspended Second Triad
137Minor Triad
145Major Triad
161Suspended Fourth Triad
273Augmented Triad
585Diminished Seventh
1161Minor Seventh
1169Dominant Seventh
2177Major Seventh Omit 3
2193Major Seventh