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Scale Name Tradition: Western Modern
These scales are based on names from the old western modes, but sometimes have "Super" or "Ultra" or "Hyper" added, "Altered", "Diminished", "Half-Diminished", and other indications that the scale is slightly different from its diatonic namesake. Also includes names that have been derived from modern Western musical traditions, including Postmodern and Serialism.
Hey. These tradition pages are a big mess right now. If you look below you will see lots of chaos and duplication and misspellings. I'm working on a new organization scheme for scale names; when that's ready it will all look way better and everything will be accurate.
TL;DR Please ignore this page. Or, peruse it at your own peril.
| 1 | Unison | ||
| 1 | Monotonic | ||
| 3 | Hemitone Prime | ||
| 11 | Octatonic Trichord | ||
| 19 | Hexatonic Trichord | ||
| 21 | Wholetone Trichord | ||
| 35 | Major Seventh Trichord | ||
| 37 | Minor Seventh Trichord | ||
| 67 | Viennese Trichord | ||
| 83 | All-Interval Tetrachord 1 | ||
| 101 | All-Interval Tetrachord 3 | ||
| 139 | All-Interval Tetrachord 2 | ||
| 209 | All-Interval Tetrachord 4 | ||
| 331 | Locrian Pentatonic 1 | ||
| 333 | Diminished Locrian | ||
| 395 | Phrygian Pentatonic | ||
| 397 | Aeolian Pentatonic | ||
| 407 | All-Trichord Hexachord | ||
| 455 | Two-semitone Tritone Scale | ||
| 619 | Hexatonic Double Phrygian | ||
| 621 | Pyramid Hexatonic | ||
| 653 | Dorian Pentatonic | ||
| 675 | Altered Pentatonic | ||
| 677 | Major Complement | ||
| 681 | Minor Added Sixth Pentatonic | ||
| 731 | Alternating Heptamode | ||
| 819 | Augmented Inverse | ||
| 819 | Six Tone Symmetrical | ||
| 859 | Ultralocrian | ||
| 859 | Superlocrian Diminished | ||
| 859 | Superlocrian Double-Flat | ||
| 859 | Diminished Locrian | ||
| 923 | Ultraphrygian | ||
| 1113 | Locrian Pentatonic 2 | ||
| 1173 | Dominant Pentatonic | ||
| 1189 | Suspended Pentatonic | ||
| 1193 | Minor Pentatonic | ||
| 1193 | Pentatonic Minor | ||
| 1197 | Minor Hexatonic | ||
| 1201 | Mixolydian Pentatonic | ||
| 1211 | Ceiling Scale | ||
| 1235 | Tritone Scale | ||
| 1321 | Phrygian Pentatonic | ||
| 1365 | Anhemitonic Hexatonic | ||
| 1365 | Auxiliary Augmented | ||
| 1367 | Leading Whole-Tone Inverse | ||
| 1371 | Superlocrian | ||
| 1371 | Diminished Whole-tone | ||
| 1371 | Altered | ||
| 1389 | Minor Locrian | ||
| 1389 | Half Diminished | ||
| 1397 | Major Locrian | ||
| 1449 | Phrygian Hexatonic | ||
| 1451 | Major Inverse | ||
| 1455 | Quartal Octamode | ||
| 1459 | Phrygian Dominant | ||
| 1459 | Harmonic Major Inverse | ||
| 1461 | Melodic Major | ||
| 1493 | Lydian Minor | ||
| 1493 | Minor Lydian | ||
| 1499 | Altered Dominant B | ||
| 1625 | Hungarian Major No5 | ||
| 1701 | Mixolydian Hexatonic | ||
| 1715 | Harmonic Minor Inverse | ||
| 1717 | Hypermixolydian | ||
| 1741 | Altered Dorian | ||
| 1749 | Acoustic | ||
| 1749 | Lydian Dominant | ||
| 1749 | Overtone Scale | ||
| 1749 | Overtone | ||
| 1749 | Overtone Dominant | ||
| 1755 | Octatonic | ||
| 1755 | Dominant Diminished | ||
| 1755 | Half-Whole Step Scale | ||
| 1755 | Dominant | ||
| 1995 | Dimygian | ||
| 2225 | Ionian Pentatonic | ||
| 2257 | Lydian Pentatonic | ||
| 2457 | Augmented | ||
| 2483 | Double Harmonic Major | ||
| 2507 | Harsh Minor | ||
| 2509 | Double Harmonic Minor | ||
| 2517 | Harmonic Lydian | ||
| 2523 | Mirage Scale | ||
| 2709 | Lydian Hexatonic | ||
| 2731 | Neapolitan Major | ||
| 2731 | Major Meapolitan | ||
| 2731 | Lydian Major | ||
| 2739 | Major-Melodic Phrygian | ||
| 2765 | Lydian Diminished | ||
| 2777 | Aeolian Harmonic | ||
| 2795 | Locrian Modified | ||
| 2869 | Major Augmented | ||
| 2901 | Lydian Augmented | ||
| 2925 | Diminished | ||
| 2925 | Octatonic 2 | ||
| 2925 | Whole-Half Step Scale | ||
| 2925 | Auxiliary Diminished | ||
| 2997 | Altered Mixolydian | ||
| 2999 | Diminishing Nonamode | ||
| 3037 | Nine Tone Scale | ||
| 3277 | Howaboot Scale | ||
| 3351 | Crater Scale | ||
| 3413 | Major Locrian | ||
| 3575 | Symmetrical Decatonic | ||
| 3837 | Minor Pentatonic With Leading Tones | ||
| 4013 | Full Minor |