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Name: Scales that aren't Major or Minor
ID: m11636
Language: English (en)
Summary: There are many musical scales that cannot be classified as major or minor, including chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, blues, and various scales common to Non-Western music.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: blues, exotic scales, jazz, modes, nonwestern, pentatonic, scales
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.15 (history)
First publication date: Dec 20, 2002 10:35 am US/Central
Last revision to module: Jun 3, 2009 4:29 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m11636_1.15.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.15 Jun 3, 2009 4:29 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
rewrote final section, and changed scales used as examples
Version: 1.14 Oct 4, 2007 10:02 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
fixed typo
Version: 1.13 Mar 6, 2007 3:50 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Changed some of the text concerning exotic scales, added PDF file and outline svg and eps files
Version: 1.12 Jan 26, 2007 3:27 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added eps CNXML
Version: 1.11 Jan 10, 2007 9:03 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
fixed typo
Version: 1.10 Sep 28, 2006 4:42 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added captions to some of the figures.
Version: 1.9 Aug 31, 2006 3:21 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added exercises, changed references to figures, and made minor text changes.
Version: 1.8 Apr 3, 2006 11:49 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Rewrote summary.
Version: 1.7 Jan 18, 2006 4:56 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Updated xml to match new figures
Version: 1.6 Jan 18, 2006 4:44 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Updated figures
Version: 1.5 Nov 3, 2005 2:43 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New chromatic scale audio file. Added concluding paragraph to pentatonic section
Version: 1.4 May 24, 2005 8:04 pm GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
update to cnxml-0.5
Version: 1.3 Feb 9, 2005 11:34 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Made minor corrections in text and added some links
Version: 1.2 May 18, 2004 9:48 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Corrected error re. chromatic scale, added some links, rewrote some text.
Version: 1.1 Oct 20, 2003 3:59 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New Module

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