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Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Nicolas Slonimisky
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This is an exhaustive study of scales and patterns. It is based on dividing
the octave into various numbers of equal parts. This study is not coming
from any specific idiom such as jazz or classical but may very well be used
in application to any idiom. It is a written enharmonically, no key signatures
and can be used by all instruments. This 250 page book is a great source
for new ideas for improvisation or composition. There are many references
made to the masters in the studies and there is an explantion of terms.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Explanation of terms
Tritone Progression
Ditone Progression
Sesquitone Progression
Wholetone Progression
Semitone Progression
Quadritone Progression
Sequiquadritone Progression
Quinquetone Progression
Diatessaron Progression
Sepitone Progression
Diapente Progression
Sequiquinquetone Progression
Hepatonic Scales
Hepatonic Arpeggios
Pentatonic Scales
Bitonal Arpeggios
Twelve Tone Patterns
Crossing Intervals
Division of Twelve Tones into Four Mutaully Exclusive Triads
Quadritonal Arpeggios
Invertible Dodecaphonic Progressions
Intervallic Studies..Increasing and Diminishing Intervals
Mirror Interval Progressions
Complimentary Scales
Permutations
Pandiatonic Progressions
Double Notes
Plural Scales and Arpeggios
Polytonal Scales
Polyrhythmical Scales
Polytonal polyrhythmical Scales
Palindromic Canons
Autochordal Harmonization
Harmonization in Major Triads and seventh Chords
Synopsis of Chords
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