The following is a list of musical scales and modes. Degrees are relative to the major scale.
Name | Image | Sound | Degrees | # of pitch classes | Lower tetrachord | Upper tetrachord | Use of key signature usual or unusual | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
15 equal temperament | ![]() |
-- | 15 | -- | -- | -- | ||
16 equal temperament | ![]() |
-- | 16 | -- | -- | -- | ||
17 equal temperament | ![]() |
-- | 17 | -- | -- | -- | ||
19 equal temperament | ![]() |
-- | 19 | -- | -- | -- | ||
21 equal temperament | ![]() |
-- | 21 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Acoustic scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 ?4 5 6 ?7 | 7 | whole tone | minor | |||
Aeolian mode or natural minor scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | minor | Phrygian | Usual | ||
Algerian scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 ?4 5 ?6 7 etc. | variable | -- | -- | |||
Alpha scale | -- | ![]() |
-- | 15.39 | -- | -- | -- | |
Altered scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 ?3 ?4 ?5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | diminished | whole tone | |||
Augmented scale | ![]() |
1 ?3 3 5 ?5 7 | 6 | -- | -- | |||
Bebop dominant scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 4 5 6 ?7 7 | 8 | -- | -- | |||
Beta scale | -- | ![]() |
-- | 18.75 | -- | -- | -- | |
Blues scale | ![]() |
1 ?3 4 ?5 5 ?7 | 6 | -- | -- | |||
Bohlen-Pierce scale | -- | ![]() |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Chromatic scale | ![]() |
1 ?1 2 ?2 3 4 ?4 5 ?5 6 ?6 7 7 ?7 6 ?6 5 ?5 4 3 ?3 2 ?2 1 |
12 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Delta scale | -- | ![]() |
-- | 85.7 | -- | -- | -- | |
Dorian mode | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 5 6 ?7 | 7 | minor | minor | Usual | ||
Double harmonic scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 3 4 5 ?6 7 | 7 | harmonic | harmonic | Unusual | ||
Enigmatic scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 3 ?4 ?5 ?6 7 | 7 | Unusual | ||||
Euler-Fokker genus | ![]() |
-- | 6 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Flamenco mode | ![]() |
1 ?2 3 4 5 ?6 7 | 7 | Phrygian | Phrygian | Unusual | ||
Gamma scale | -- | ![]() |
-- | 34.29 | -- | -- | -- | |
"Gypsy" scale[a] | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 ?4 5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | Gypsy | Phrygian | Unusual | ||
Half diminished scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 ?5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | minor | whole tone | |||
Harmonic major scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 4 5 ?6 7 | 7 | major | harmonic | |||
Harmonic minor scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 5 ?6 (?)7 | 7 | minor | harmonic | |||
Harmonic Scale | ![]() |
-- | 144 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Hexany | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Hirajoshi scale | ![]() |
1 3 ?4 5 7 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Hungarian "Gypsy" scale[a] | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 ?4 5 ?6 7 | 7 | Gypsy | harmonic | Unusual | ||
Hungarian minor scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 ?4 5 ?6 7 | 7 | Gypsy | harmonic | |||
In scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 4 5 ?6 | 5 | -- | -- | |||
Insen scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 4 5 ?7 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Ionian mode or major scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 7 | major | major | Usual | ||
Istrian scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 ?3 ?4 ?5 5 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Iwato scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 4 ?5 ?7 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Locrian mode | ![]() |
1 ?2 ?3 4 ?5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | Phrygian | whole tone | Usual | ||
Lydian augmented scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 ?4 ?5 6 7 | 7 | whole tone | diminished | |||
Lydian mode | ![]() |
1 2 3 ?4 5 6 7 | 7 | whole tone | major | Usual | ||
Major bebop scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 4 5 (?5/?6) 6 7 | 7(8) | -- | -- | |||
Major Locrian scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 4 ?5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | major | whole tone | |||
Major pentatonic scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 5 6 | 5 | -- | -- | Usual | ||
Melodic minor scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 5 ?6 ?7 8 ?7 ?6 5 4 ?3 2 1 | 9 | minor | varies | |||
Melodic minor scale (ascending) | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 5 6 7 | 7 | minor | major | |||
Minor pentatonic scale | ![]() |
1 ?3 4 5 ?7 | 5 | -- | -- | Usual | ||
Mixolydian mode or Adonai malakh mode | ![]() |
1 2 3 4 5 6 ?7 | 7 | major | minor | Usual | ||
Neapolitan major scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 ?3 4 5 6 7 | 7 | Phrygian | major | Unusual | ||
Neapolitan minor scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 ?3 4 5 ?6 7 | 7 | Phrygian | harmonic | Unusual | ||
Non-Pythagorean scale | -- | ![]() |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Octatonic scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 4 ?5 ?6 6 7 1 ?2 ?3 3 ?4 5 6 ?7 |
8 | -- | -- | |||
Pelog | ![]() |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
Persian scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 3 4 ?5 ?6 7 | 7 | harmonic | unusual | |||
Pfluke scale | - | - | 1 2 ?3 ?4 5 6 7 | 7 | minor | minor | Unusual | |
Phrygian dominant scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 3 4 5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | harmonic | Phrygian | Unusual | ||
Phrygian mode | ![]() |
1 ?2 ?3 4 5 ?6 ?7 | 7 | Phrygian | Phrygian | Usual | ||
Prometheus scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 ?4 6 ?7 | 6 | -- | -- | |||
Quarter tone scale | ![]() |
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24 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Scale of harmonics | ![]() |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
Slendro | ![]() ![]() |
-- | 5 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Tritone scale | ![]() |
1 ?2 3 ?5 5 ?7 | 6 | -- | -- | |||
Ukrainian Dorian scale | ![]() |
1 2 ?3 ?4 5 6 ?7 | 7 | Gypsy | minor | Unusual | ||
Whole tone scale | ![]() |
1 2 3 ?4 ?5 ?6 | 6 | -- | -- | |||
Yo scale | ![]() |
1 ?3 4 5 ?7 | 5 | -- | -- |