E flat aeolian natural minor ascending1/21/2024 ![]() ![]() Durum, G-A-B-c-d-e, is a subset of the G-ionian/major scale.Molle, F-G-A-B♭-c-d, is a subset of the G-aeolian/natural-minor scale.That gave rise to the name of what came to become the most prominent hexatonic scales, namely the hexacordum molle and hexacordum durum. These terms, in turn, originated from only the names of the notes B♭ ( B molle) and B ( B durum). The “minor scale” and “major scale” have originated from the church-Latin cantus mollis and cantus durus. These variations of the minor scale are there to maintain consonance when the dominant is played. This is where the melodic and harmonic minor (used over a dominant V chord - e.g G7 in Cmin or E7 in Amin.) come into play. Phrygian isn't that stable either, and it's more dissonant than aolian, try improvising a melody in E phrygian (without a drone or harmony), and you'll feel like resolving it in A aolian.Įven aolian (natural minor scale), isn't stable enough sometimes to escape the pull of the Ionian mode. Dorian, for example, isn't that dissonant, but it's not that stable if there is no harmony or drone to support it, the brain may interpret it as a different scale (an Aolian or Ionian scale with a different tonic), like C Maj or A Min instead of D dorian. Now why is it the most common minor scale? It's probably because it's the least dissonant minor scale, and the most stable. So if it's the one that we use most most of the time, why not simply call it "minor"? And of all the minor modes, aolian the natural minor scale (or simply "minor scale") is by far the most commonly used in western music. Modes are sometimes classified as "minor" or "major" depending on their third (a minor third usually comes with other minor degrees like the flat 7th which is common to all minor modes of the major scale). Names don't have to accurately reflect the definition. ![]() ![]() The minor scale is not called the "minor scale" because it is the most minor. ![]()
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