Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 1997/07

From: Ryan Lowe <ryan@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Pentatonic Scale
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:49:41 -0400

Thanks, THat is exactly what I was looking for:)

At 11:33 AM 7/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Could somebody please tell me the form of pentatonic major and pentatonic
>>minor scales? I had them written down....somewhere. When I looked in my
>>little musical dictionary, the definition did not help at all. TIA
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>Major Pentatonic: 3 whole steps and 2 minor third intervals which are
>between steps 3 and 4 and 5 and 6. Thus [in C] C D E G A C.
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>Minor Pentatonic: 3 whole steps and 2 minor third intervals which, in
>minor, are between steps 1 and 2 and 4 and 5. Thus [in C] C Eb F G Bb C.
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>Let me know if you need more. Fred S.
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