Major Locrian scale

The scale therefore shares with the Locrian mode the property of having a diminished fifth above the tonic.

It can also be the natural minor scale or Aeolian mode with raised third and lowered fifth intervals.

[1] A version of the major Locrian scale is listed as mode 3 in the French translation of Safi Al-Din's treatise Kitab Al-Adwar.

Aside from this Arabic version, interest in the major Locrian is a phenomenon of the twentieth century, but the scale is definable in any meantone system.

Examples are given of the use of this scale by Claude Debussy in his opera Pelléas et Mélisande and Alban Berg in his song "Nacht".