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Scale Name Tradition: Exoticisms

These are scale names that were coined by western theorists, using names of foreign and exotic places. In some cases the names have a real connection to a place or culture they describe, but too often these names are unrelated to any actual musical traditions. Some are arguably racist. Many of these modes have authentic names, for example the exoticism named "Jewish" scale (1711) is called "Adonai Malakh" in the Jewish musical tradition.

5Vietnamese Ditonic
41Vietnamese Tritonic
137Peruvian Tritonic 2
145Peruvian Tritonic 1
149Eskimo Tetratonic
161Warao Tritonic
169Vietnamese Tetratonic
219Istrian
307Syrian Pentatonic
395Balinese
419Japanese (a)
421Japanese (b)
661Peruvian Pentatonic 1
677Scottish Pentatonic
693Scottish Hexatonic
725Ancient Chinese
877Hungarian Major Inverse
947Romani Hexatonic
1025Warao Ditonic
1037Warao Tetratonic
1189Egyptian
1193Peruvian Pentatonic 2
1197Eskimo Hexatonic 1
1395Asian (a)
1397Arabian (b)
1403Eight-tone Spanish
1453Peruvian Minor
1459Spanish Romani
1459Dorico Flamenco
1459Altered Hungarian
1461Hindu
1461Hindustani
1467Spanish Phrygian
1485Minor Romani
1485Romani Scale
1651Asian
1651Asian (b)
1651Hungarian Minor Inverse
1651Minor Romani Inverse
1653Minor Romani Inverse
1709Eskimo Heptatonic
1711Jewish
1711Spanish Octamode
1741Ukranian Dorian
1741Romanian Scale
1741Rumanian Minor
1741Ukrainian Minor
1747Romanian Major
1753Hungarian Major
2389Eskimo Hexatonic 2
2419Persian
2475Hungarian Romani
2483Major Romani
2483Hungarian Romani Persian
2483Byzantine
2485Ethiopian
2489Romani Hexatonic Inverse
2509Hungarian Minor
2509Egyptian Heptatonic
2509Flamenco Mode
2541Algerian
2701Hawaiian
2733Hawaiian
2739Hungarian Romani Inverse
2805Kubilai's Mongol Scale
2841African Pentatonic 3
2925Arabian A
3515Moorish Phrygian
3765Chinese Eight-Tone