Scale
(I) A succession of ascending or descending sounds. Major Scale, a series of sounds with a half-tone between 3-4 and 7-8, reckoning upward. Minor Scale, a series of sounds with a half-tone between 2-3 and 5-6 in the natural minor, in the Melodic Minor, 7-8, ascending. The Melodic Minor descends, like the Natural Minor; in the Harmonic Minor there are half-tones between 2-3, 5-6, and 7-8, and a tone and a half between 6 and 7. The Minor Scale sometimes descends with raised 6 and 7. Many examples may be found in Bach's music. Chromatic Scale, one formed wholly of half-tones. Pentatonic Scale [Gr., penta, five, tonos, sound], one that omits the 4 and 7. The Pentatonic Scale may be major or minor, thus:- Hungarian Gypsy Scale consists of the following curious succession :- # (2) The series of overtones of a simple tube, such as the horn without valves. (3) In organ-pipes, the proportion between the length and the diameter. (4) In the piano,