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An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. The scale most often meant by this term is one in which the notes ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step, creating a symmetric scale. In classical theory, in contradistinction to jazz theory, this scale is commonly simply called the octatonic scale (or octatonic collection), although there are forty-two other non-enharmonically equivalent, non-transpositionally equivalent eight-tone sets possible.
In St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century, this scale had become so familiar in the circle of composers around Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that it was referred to there as the Korsakovian scale (Корсаковская гамма) (Taruskin 1985, 132). As early as 1911 the Russian theorist Boleslav Yavorsky described this collection of pitches as the diminished mode (уменьшённый лад), because of the stable way the diminished fifth functions in it (Taruskin 1985, 111–13, citing Yavorsky 1911), and in jazz theory it is called the diminished scale (Campbell 2001, 126), or symmetric diminished scale (Hatfield 2005, 125), because it can be conceived as a combination of two interlocking diminished seventh chords, just as the augmented scale can be conceived as a combination of two interlocking augmented triads. In more recent Russian theory the term "octatonic" is not used. Instead this scale is placed among other symmetrical modes (total 11) under its historical name Rimsky-Korsakov scale, or Rimsky-Korsakov mode (Kholopov 1982, 30; Kholopov 2003, 227). Because it was associated in the early 20th century with the Dutch composer Willem Pijper, in the Netherlands it is called the Pijper scale (Taruskin 1985, 73).
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. It generally derives from observation of, and involves hypothetical speculation about how musicians and composers make music. The term also describes the academic study and analysis of fundamental elements of music such as pitch, rhythm, harmony, and form, and refers to descriptions, concepts, or beliefs related to music. Because of the ever-expanding conception of what constitutes music (see Definition of music), a more inclusive definition could be that music theory is the consideration of any sonic phenomena, including silence, as it relates to music.
The present article is about music theory properly speaking, i.e. about theories, speculations and hypotheses made about the various aspects or music. It describes the elements of music only insofar as they give way to such theories; other informations about these elements will be found in other articles such as Aspect of music and the specific parameters of music described there. Textbooks, especially in the United States of America, often also include under the term "theory" elements of musical acoustics, considerations of musical notation, techniques of (often tonal) composition (Harmony and Counterpoint), etc., which will not be dealt with as such here, but only as they were the subject of theories and hypotheses.
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Not all scales are created equal. Some are more interesting than others, and perhaps one of the most interesting is the Octatonic Scale, with 8 notes forming a repeating pattern just full of strange properties. Also known as the Diminished Scale, it's a fascinating look into a deeply structured but very different harmonic world. What does it do? How do you use it? What hides within its depths? Well, as it turns out, pretty much everything. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Next: https://youtu.be/YSlIKe_2kG8 Last: https://youtu.be/heRleAas0lY Modes video: https://youtu.be/NIIQKMbHSrI Symmetrical Scales video: https://you...
Download our free course catalog: http://berkonl.in/2aLSxkF Enroll in Music Theory and Composition 4: http://berkonl.in/2omAWVI In this free music theory lesson, Kari Juusela introduces the octatonic scale. An incredibly versatile scale, the octatonic/diminished scale is often used to improvise over seventh chords, and provides some dark, ominous sounds made popular by composers like Messiaen and Debussy. Watch more videos in this series: Whole Tone Scale: https://youtu.be/MotdhW3mMVM Spanish Phrygian Scale: https://youtu.be/yRggh1XXZZI Lydian Augmented Scale: https://youtu.be/-X2HNQPdWWg About Berklee Online: Berklee Online is the continuing education division of Berklee College of Music, delivering online access to Berklee's acclaimed curriculum from anywhere in the world, offering ...
http://musictheoryisyourfriend.com/ Quick audio of the octatonic (or octotonic) scale played starting on C. There are two versions...one starting with a semitone jump, and the other with the tone jump. The pattern of the scale is tone/semitone/tone/semitone or vice versa/
A piece built exclusively on the octatonic scale C Db Eb E F# G A Bb, based on this painting after a 17th century dentist/charlatan : http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjs6iyZpQ1qbhp9xo1_1280.jpg I've tried to achieve a completely tonal feeling with contrast between the different sections with modulations (despite the impossibility of perfect cadences). I've also used some of the special properties of the octatonic scale, like its invariability at the minor third and tritone (e.g. the main theme is presented in the tonic of C and then in Eb, and both cases contain the same 8 notes). I didn't intend to write a jazzy feel, but its at the end it seemed the most logical, since blue notes occur naturally in octatonic.
Improvisation Exercises, using diminished scale runs and patterns. A four step process: 1. Runs built on diminished scales applied to altered dominant chords. 2. Diminished patterns with resolutions V-I, . 3.Applied to II-V-I Progressions. 4. Applied to specific song chord progression. Includes free music download on my website, https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-26455100/documents/5865c433c4b43YFSzaPt/Dininished%20Scale%20Runs2pdf.pdf http://www.kenthewitt.com/
Music Theory - Tonic Diminished Scale 5 Minute Study This is my new 5 Minute Scale Study Series. This episode feature the Tonic Diminished/ Octatonic Scale/ Whole-Half Diminished Scale- its construction and how it can be used in composition and improvisation. In this episode I am using the F Tonic Diminished Scale for demonstration purposes F Ab Cb Ebb and its Upper extensions G (9) Bb (11) Db (b6) E (maj7). Links To Follow: If you are interested in purchasing The Beato Book click here: https://rickbeato.com/products/the-beato-book If you would like to support my video creation, you can hit the SUPPORT button on the sidebar of my main page YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/rickbeatoproduction/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rick...
Secret Love played and arranged for solo piano by David Caldine - http://www.davidcaldine.com Secret Love is my octatonic arrangement of the Sammy Fain and Paul Webster song that Doris Day made famous in her film "Calamity Jane" in 1953 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL87sHjXlVU . In fact her performance won an Academy Award for Best Song in the picture. By the way, she only required one take of Secret Love to get that Academy Award! That's because she was a really great artist. My first two etudes are 99% octatonic. However,Secret Love is an arrangement of an existing popular song, so I only use the octatonic scales in the introduction, fill-ins on long melodic notes, and a short cadenza at the end. The scale passage at 1:18 is a purely symmetric octatonic scale. Chords built on thir...
http://www.jazzeveryone.com/freelesson The Diminished Jazz Vocabulary mini-lesson outlines a simple and sensible way to develop and apply the diminished scale. Pentatonic Pair setups off the b7 provide easy access in finding the right starting notes for traditional patterns played on the regular II-V progressions or the altered II V I in a Minor key.
Not all scales are created equal. Some are more interesting than others, and perhaps one of the most interesting is the Octatonic Scale, with 8 notes forming a repeating pattern just full of strange properties. Also known as the Diminished Scale, it's a fascinating look into a deeply structured but very different harmonic world. What does it do? How do you use it? What hides within its depths? Well, as it turns out, pretty much everything. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Next: https://youtu.be/YSlIKe_2kG8 Last: https://youtu.be/heRleAas0lY Modes video: https://youtu.be/NIIQKMbHSrI Symmetrical Scales video: https://you...
Download our free course catalog: http://berkonl.in/2aLSxkF Enroll in Music Theory and Composition 4: http://berkonl.in/2omAWVI In this free music theory lesson, Kari Juusela introduces the octatonic scale. An incredibly versatile scale, the octatonic/diminished scale is often used to improvise over seventh chords, and provides some dark, ominous sounds made popular by composers like Messiaen and Debussy. Watch more videos in this series: Whole Tone Scale: https://youtu.be/MotdhW3mMVM Spanish Phrygian Scale: https://youtu.be/yRggh1XXZZI Lydian Augmented Scale: https://youtu.be/-X2HNQPdWWg About Berklee Online: Berklee Online is the continuing education division of Berklee College of Music, delivering online access to Berklee's acclaimed curriculum from anywhere in the world, offering ...
http://musictheoryisyourfriend.com/ Quick audio of the octatonic (or octotonic) scale played starting on C. There are two versions...one starting with a semitone jump, and the other with the tone jump. The pattern of the scale is tone/semitone/tone/semitone or vice versa/
A piece built exclusively on the octatonic scale C Db Eb E F# G A Bb, based on this painting after a 17th century dentist/charlatan : http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjs6iyZpQ1qbhp9xo1_1280.jpg I've tried to achieve a completely tonal feeling with contrast between the different sections with modulations (despite the impossibility of perfect cadences). I've also used some of the special properties of the octatonic scale, like its invariability at the minor third and tritone (e.g. the main theme is presented in the tonic of C and then in Eb, and both cases contain the same 8 notes). I didn't intend to write a jazzy feel, but its at the end it seemed the most logical, since blue notes occur naturally in octatonic.
Improvisation Exercises, using diminished scale runs and patterns. A four step process: 1. Runs built on diminished scales applied to altered dominant chords. 2. Diminished patterns with resolutions V-I, . 3.Applied to II-V-I Progressions. 4. Applied to specific song chord progression. Includes free music download on my website, https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-26455100/documents/5865c433c4b43YFSzaPt/Dininished%20Scale%20Runs2pdf.pdf http://www.kenthewitt.com/
Music Theory - Tonic Diminished Scale 5 Minute Study This is my new 5 Minute Scale Study Series. This episode feature the Tonic Diminished/ Octatonic Scale/ Whole-Half Diminished Scale- its construction and how it can be used in composition and improvisation. In this episode I am using the F Tonic Diminished Scale for demonstration purposes F Ab Cb Ebb and its Upper extensions G (9) Bb (11) Db (b6) E (maj7). Links To Follow: If you are interested in purchasing The Beato Book click here: https://rickbeato.com/products/the-beato-book If you would like to support my video creation, you can hit the SUPPORT button on the sidebar of my main page YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/rickbeatoproduction/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rick...
Secret Love played and arranged for solo piano by David Caldine - http://www.davidcaldine.com Secret Love is my octatonic arrangement of the Sammy Fain and Paul Webster song that Doris Day made famous in her film "Calamity Jane" in 1953 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL87sHjXlVU . In fact her performance won an Academy Award for Best Song in the picture. By the way, she only required one take of Secret Love to get that Academy Award! That's because she was a really great artist. My first two etudes are 99% octatonic. However,Secret Love is an arrangement of an existing popular song, so I only use the octatonic scales in the introduction, fill-ins on long melodic notes, and a short cadenza at the end. The scale passage at 1:18 is a purely symmetric octatonic scale. Chords built on thir...
http://www.jazzeveryone.com/freelesson The Diminished Jazz Vocabulary mini-lesson outlines a simple and sensible way to develop and apply the diminished scale. Pentatonic Pair setups off the b7 provide easy access in finding the right starting notes for traditional patterns played on the regular II-V progressions or the altered II V I in a Minor key.
An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. The scale most often meant by this term is one in which the notes ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step, creating a symmetric scale. In classical theory, in contradistinction to jazz theory, this scale is commonly simply called the octatonic scale, although there are forty-two other non-enharmonically equivalent, non-transpositionally equivalent eight-tone sets possible. In St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century, this scale had become so familiar in the circle of composers around Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that it was referred to there as the Korsakovian scale. As early as 1911 the Russian theorist Boleslav Yavorsky described this collection of pitches as the diminished mode, because of the stable way the di...
Octatonic scales play a role in Contemporary Classical Music and Modern Jazz. In this video I consider a set of Octatonic scales which are interesting not only because of the outstanding chords they produce but also amid the simplicity in their construction. In this video I present 12 improvisations based on the Octatonic minor scales described below, obtained from the rule: T S S S T T T S. The extra note I use here is added as the new third note in the corresponding heptatonic major scale, yielding a minor scale. In Jazz and Blues contexts, it is known as the 'blue note'. (00:00) A B C C# D E F# G# (02:33) A# C C# D D# F G A (05:10) B C# D D# E F# G# A# (09:35) C D D# E F G A B (13:42) C# D# E F F# G# A# C (20:22) D E F ...
Updated version! A discussion of the Octatonic scale.
The video is divided into three main pieces. The first one deals with the C major key, interrupted by an interlude into the octatonic C8 scale. The second piece is integrally dedicated to the octatonic E8 scale (see below). The closing piece introduces for the very first time the nonatonic C9 scale (C D D# E F G A A# B), obtained from C8 by adding a semitone, A#, before the last note, B. It plays the role of a second blue note added to C7. Such a C9 scale has the remarkable merit of embracing three heptatonic scales! Namely: C7 (by definition), F7 (F G A A# C D E) and A#7 (A# C D D# F G A), which are adjacent on the Circle of Fifths. Enjoy it! 1st piece: (00:00) C7 major 1st part. (C D E F G A B) (04:06) C8 minor interlude (C D D# E F ...
Join the Members Area: http://www.creativeguitarstudio.com/ Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio One of the most common Jazz scales (applied in all styles of jazz music), is the Diminished scale. Often referred to as the "Octatonic Scale" its structure is very unique due to its 8-tone layout (which is a rare occurrence in a world of "5-tone" pentatonic and 7-tone scales & modes). The Diminished scale is derived out of two interlocking 4-tone diminished seventh chords giving us those "eight separate tones" that produce altered degrees in the scales structure. The associated altered tones are an augmented "9th & 5th," as well as, diminished 5th. In this lesson, we'll explore the Diminished scales' structure, we'll study a collection of popular scale patterns on the neck, and we'll work ...
(Requested Tutorial), Barry Harris's 6th and Diminished Scale explained with practical examples. Observations from Barry's workshops filmed at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.(Netherlands). Analysis of theory of scale, chords, drop 2 voicings, and application to popular songs and arrangements. Accompanying score is available SOON on website or by email to kenthewitt@hotmail.com Website: http://www.kenthewitt.com/
*Appoggiatura was spelled incorrectly in video! TOPICS 0:00 - Non-chord tone definition 1:48 - Passing tone 5:43 - Neighbor tone 8:34 - Suspension 14:50 - Retardation 17:34 - Appoggiatura 19:53 - Escape tone 24:08 - Anticipation 27:05 - Pedal point 30:37 - Neighbor group 34:07 - Labelling suspensions
Improvisation Exercises, using diminished scale runs and patterns. A four step process: 1. Runs built on diminished scales applied to altered dominant chords. 2. Improvisation Exercises, using diminished scale runs and patterns. A four step process: 1. Runs built on diminished scales applied to altered dominant chords. 2. Exploring the Diminished Scale and it's partner, the Altered Dominant 7th Scale. An 8 note symmetrical scale that can be played over both dominant 7th chords .
In this episode I discuss how to flow between modes using transition tones (leading into a chord change by 1/2 step) in your solos. I will demonstrate nine different Dorian to Dominant Diminished to Ionian Lines in the key of G major. The progression is a ii V I maj7 or A-7 / D7b9 / Gmaj7. Links To Follow: If you are interested in purchasing The Beato Book click here: https://rickbeato.com/products/the-beato-book YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/rickbeatoproduction/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rickbeato1/ Twitter - @rickbeato www.nuryl.com www.rickbeato.com