theory, the minor scale has three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending...

The harmonic minor scale (or Aeolian ♯7 scale) is a musical scale derived from the natural minor scale, with the minor seventh degree raised by one semitone...

Minor Scale was a test conducted on June 27, 1985, by the United States Defense Nuclear Agency (now part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) involving...

which has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations...

The Hungarian minor scale, double harmonic minor scale, or Gypsy minor scale is a type of combined musical scale. It is the fourth mode of the double harmonic...

The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used....

F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, and E♭. Its key signature consists of four flats. Its relative major...

In music, relative keys are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures (enharmonically equivalent), meaning that they share all of the...

describing additional possible transpositions of the diatonic scale. Major and minor scales came to dominate until at least the start of the 20th century...

minor scale) The Arabic scales The Hungarian minor scale The Byzantine music scales (called echoi) The Persian scale Scales such as the pentatonic scale may...

A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative major is C major...

from melodic minor scale only by raising the third degree to a major third. The double harmonic major scale has a minor second and a minor sixth. It is...

octatonic (or diminished), and the modes of the ascending melodic minor. All of these scales were commonly used by late nineteenth and early twentieth-century...

fifth mode of Hungarian minor, or Double Harmonic minor, scale, also known as the Byzantine scale. Hungarian minor scale, minor scale with raised fourth and...

relative minor, A minor, natural minor: A B C D E F G A the melodic minor scale, A B C D E F♯G♯A ascending, A G F E D C B A descending the harmonic minor scale...

degree again. The resulting scale is, however, minor in quality, because, as the D becomes the new tonal centre, the F a minor third above the D becomes...

C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, and B♭. Its key signature consists of three flats. Its relative major...

D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B♭, and C. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative major is F major...

B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, and A. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative major is D major...

E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F♯, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp. Its relative major is G major...

G-sharp minor is a minor scale based on G♯, consisting of the pitches G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, E, and F♯. Its key signature has five sharps. Its relative major...

A-sharp minor is a minor musical scale based on A♯, consisting of the pitches A♯, B♯, C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, and G♯. Its key signature has seven sharps. Its relative...

Ionian ♭6, or the harmonic minor scale with the third degree raised. The intervals between the notes of a harmonic major scale follow the sequence below:...

G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, and F. Its key signature has two flats. Its relative major is B-flat...

Tones and Semitones (and of the so-called Major-Minor Scale)) from c. 1879, which preceded Vito Frazzi's Scale alternate per pianoforte of 1930 by a full half-century...

D-sharp minor is a minor scale based on D♯, consisting of the pitches D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, B, and C♯. Its key signature has six sharps. Its relative major...

major Neapolitan scale and the minor Neapolitan scale are two musical scales. Both scales are minor, in that they both contain a minor third above the...

F-sharp minor is a minor scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, and E. Its key signature has three sharps. Its relative major...

of the harmonic minor scale by one semitone. raising the seventh of the Phrygian dominant scale (a mode of the harmonic minor scale) by a semitone. The...

C-sharp minor is a minor scale based on C♯, with the pitches C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B. Its key signature consists of four sharps. The C-sharp natural...