List of musical scales and modes
The following is a list of musical scales and modes.
Degrees are relative to the major scale.
W-W-H-W-W-H-W (descending) (12,10,8,7,5,3,2) (descending) Major (descending) Minor (descending) Usual (descending) 1 ♭2 ♭3 3 ♯4 5 6 ♭7
(0,1,3,4,6,7,9,10) Diminished Minor Unusual 8 7 7 ♭7 7 6 6 ♭6 6 5 5 ♭5 5 4 4 3 3 ♭3 3 2 2 ♭2 2 1
15-tet scale on C.
16-tet scale on C.
17-tet scale on C.
19-tet scale on C.
21-tet scale on C.
Acoustic scale on C.
Aeolian on C.
Algerian scale on C.
Altered scale on C.
Augmented scale on C.
Bebop dominant scale on C.
Blues scale on C.
Chromatic scale on C.
Dorian on C.
Double harmonic scale on C.
Enigmatic scale on C.
Euler-Fokker genus 337 on C.
Flamenco mode on C.
"Gypsy" [
sic
] scale on C.
Half diminished scale on C.
Harmonic major scale on C.
Harmonic minor scale on C.
Harmonic scale chromatic on C.
Hirajoshi scale on C.
Hungarian "Gypsy"[sic] scale on C.
Hungarian major scale on C.
Miyako-bushi
scale on D, equivalent to
in
scale on D, with brackets on fourths.
Insen scale on C.
Ionian on C.
Istrian mode on C.
Iwato scale on C.
Locrian on C.
Lydian augmented scale on C.
Lydian diminished on C.
Lydian on C.
Major bebop scale on C.
Major Locrian scale C.
Major pentatonic scale on C.
The A melodic minor scale, ascending and descending, on A.
Melodic minor scale ascending on A.
Minor pentatonic scale on A.
Mixolydian on C.
Neapolitan major scale on C.
Neapolitan minor scale on C.
Octatonic scales on C.
Pelog
approximated in Western notation.
Persian scale on C.
Phrygian dominant on C.
Phrygian on C.
Prometheus scale on C.
Quarter tone scale C.
Scale of harmonics C.
Slendro on C compared to a whole tone scale on C.
Tritone scale on C.
Two-semitone tritone scale on C.
Ukrainian Dorian mode on C.
Vietnamese scale of harmonics on C.
Whole tone scale on C.
Min'yō
scale on D, equivalent to
yo
scale on C, with brackets on fourths.
