Английская Википедия:Altered scale
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox musical scale
In jazz, the altered scale, altered dominant scale, or Super Locrian scale (Locrian Шаблон:Music4 scale) is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all non-essential tones have been altered. This means that it comprises the three irreducibly essential tones that define a dominant seventh chord, which are root, major third, and minor seventh and that all other chord tones have been altered. These are:
- the fifth is altered to a Шаблон:Music5 and a Шаблон:Music5
- the ninth is altered to a Шаблон:Music9 and a Шаблон:Music9
- the eleventh is altered to a Шаблон:Music11 (equivalent to a Шаблон:Music5)
- the thirteenth is altered to a Шаблон:Music13 (equivalent to a Шаблон:Music5)
The altered forms of some of the non-essential tones coincide (augmented eleventh with diminished fifth and augmented fifth with minor thirteenth) meaning those scale degrees are enharmonically identical and have multiple potential spellings. The natural forms of the non-essential tones are not present in the scale. This means it lacks a major ninth, a perfect eleventh, a perfect fifth, and a major thirteenth.
This is written below in musical notation with the essential chord tones coloured black and the non-essential altered chord tones coloured red.
- <score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' {
\clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { C altered scale }
\override NoteHead.color = #red des dis
\override NoteHead.color = #black e
\override NoteHead.color = #red ges gis
\override NoteHead.color = #black bes c
}
} </score>
The altered scale is made by the sequence:
- Half, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Whole
The abbreviation "alt" (for "altered") used in chord symbols enhances readability by reducing the number of characters otherwise needed to define the chord and avoids the confusion of multiple equivalent complex names. For example, "C7alt" supplants "C7Шаблон:Music5Шаблон:Music9Шаблон:Music9Шаблон:Music11", "C7−5+5−9+9", "Caug7−9+9+11", etc.
This scale has existed for a long time as the 7th mode of the ascending melodic minor scale.
Enharmonic spellings and alternate names
The C altered scale is also enharmonically equivalent to the C Locrian mode with F changed to FШаблон:Music. For this reason, the altered scale is sometimes called the Locrian Шаблон:Music 4 scale.Шаблон:Sfn
It is also enharmonically the seventh mode of the ascending melodic minor scale. The altered scale is also known as the Pomeroy scale after Herb Pomeroy,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn the Ravel scale after Maurice Ravel, and the diminished whole tone scale due to its resemblance to the lower part of the diminished scale and the upper part of the whole tone scale.Шаблон:Sfn
The super-Locrian scale (enharmonically identical to the altered scale) is obtained by flattening the fourth note of the diatonic Locrian mode:
- <score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' {
\clef treble \time 7/4
c4^\markup { C super-Locrian scale } des es fes ges aes bes c2 }
} </score>
Another way to obtain the altered scale is by raising the tonic of a major scale by a half step. For example taking the tonic of the B-major scale, and raising the tonic by a half step produces the scale C–CШаблон:Music–DШаблон:Music–E–FШаблон:Music–GШаблон:Music–AШаблон:Music–C.
- <score> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' {
\clef treble \time 7/4 c4 cis dis e fis gis ais c2 }
}
</score>
The altered scale can also be the major scale with all of the notes except the tonic being flattened.
See also
References
Шаблон:Reflist Sources
Further reading
- Callender, Clifton. 1998. "Voice-leading parsimony in the music of Alexander Scriabin", Journal of Music Theory 42, no. 2 ("Neo-Riemannian Theory", Autumn): 219–233.
- Tymoczko, Dmitri. 1997. "The Consecutive-Semitone Constraint on Scalar Structure: A Link Between Impressionism and Jazz." Integral 11:135–79.
- Tymoczko, Dmitri. 2004. "Scale Networks in Debussy." Journal of Music Theory 48, no. 2 (Autumn): 215–292.
External links
- "The Altered Scale for Jazz Guitar", jazzguitar.be
