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