What is Hexatonic Scale?

Information about Hexatonic Scale

A hexatonic scale is a musical scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Famous examples include the whole tone scale, C D E F# G# A# C, the augmented scale, C D# E G Ab B, and what some jazz theory calls the "blues scale", C Eb F F# G Bb C.

Whole-tone scale

The whole-tone scale is primarily associated with the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, who used it in such pieces of his as Voiles and La vent dans la plaine, both from his first book of piano Preludes.

Augmented scale

The augmented scale is so called because it can be thought of as an interlocking combination of two augmented triads a minor second or minor third apart: C E G# and Eb G B. It made one of its most celebrated early appearances in Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (Eine Faust Symphonie).

Blues scale

Since blues notes (or blue notes) are alternate inflections, strictly speaking there can be no one blues scale, but the scale most commonly called "the blues scale" comprises a flatted seventh blues note, a flatted third blues note, a flatted fifth blues note, and the flatted fifth's note of upward resolution along with other pitches derived from the minor pentatonic scale, C Eb F F# G Bb C.
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In music, a scale is a collection of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. Scales are ordered in pitch or pitch class, with their ordering providing a measure of musical distance.
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Achille-Claude Debussy (IPA /aʃil klod dəby'si/) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer.
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A Faust Symphony in three character studies (Eine Faust-Sinfonie in drei Charakterbildern) (S.108), or simply the "Faust Symphony", was written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and was inspired by Johann von Goethe's drama, Faust.
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Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants,
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In music, a scale is a collection of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. Scales are ordered in pitch or pitch class, with their ordering providing a measure of musical distance.
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A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitches per octave as compared to the major scale which is made up of seven distinct notes. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world, including but not limited to Celtic folk music, African-American
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A heptatonic scale is a musical scale with seven pitches per octave. Among the most famous of these are the diatonic scale, C D E F G A B C; the melodic minor scale, C D Eb F G A B C ascending, C Bb Ab G F Eb D C descending; the harmonic minor scale
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The diminished scale is a musical scale the pitches of which ascend in alternating whole tones and semitones. It is called the diminished scale because it can be conceived as a combination of two interlocking diminished seventh chords, just as the augmented scale
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