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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.
| 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 I | ||
| 101 | All-Interval Tetrachord III | ||
| 139 | All-Interval Tetrachord II | ||
| 209 | All-Interval Tetrachord IV | ||
| 331 | Locrian Pentatonic 1 | ||
| 333 | Diminished Locrian | ||
| 395 | Phrygian Pentatonic | ||
| 397 | Aeolian Pentatonic | ||
| 407 | All-Trichord Hexachord | ||
| 455 | Two-semitone Tritone Scale | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1371 | Alt | ||
| 1389 | Minor Locrian | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1749 | Overtone Dominant | ||
| 1755 | Octatonic | ||
| 1755 | Dominant Diminished | ||
| 1755 | Dominant | ||
| 1995 | Dimygian | ||
| 2225 | Ionian Pentatonic | ||
| 2257 | Lydian Pentatonic | ||
| 2457 | Augmented | ||
| 2507 | Harsh Minor | ||
| 2509 | Double Harmonic Minor | ||
| 2517 | Harmonic Lydian | ||
| 2523 | Mirage Scale | ||
| 2709 | Lydian Hexatonic | ||
| 2731 | Neapolitan Major | ||
| 2731 | Lydian Major | ||
| 2739 | Major-Melodic Phrygian | ||
| 2765 | Lydian Minor | ||
| 2765 | Lydian Diminished | ||
| 2777 | Aeolian Harmonic | ||
| 2795 | Locrian Modified | ||
| 2869 | Major Augmented | ||
| 2901 | Lydian Augmented | ||
| 2925 | Diminished | ||
| 2925 | Octatonic 2 | ||
| 2925 | Auxiliary Diminished | ||
| 2997 | Altered Mixolydian | ||
| 2999 | Diminishing Nonamode | ||
| 3037 | Nine Tone Scale | ||
| 3277 | Howaboot Scale | ||
| 3351 | Crater Scale | ||
| 3575 | Symmetrical Decatonic | ||
| 3837 | Minor Pentatonic With Leading Tones | ||
| 4013 | Full Minor |