Klarinet Archive - Posting 000854.txt from 2000/12

From: Stephen Heinemann <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] What key?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:31:30 -0500

> > I wonder if there's a name for it,
> > other than "D minor with a raised 4th degree" or "A major with
> > a raised 6th."
>
> If you will put a Bb in it, it has a name. (D E F G# A Bb C# D). That's
> called "Hungarian minor," or sometimes, "Gypsy minor."
>
> Ed Lacy
>
The original collection, using B-natural and starting on A, might be called
"major harmonic," following the lead of Vincent Persichetti's _Twentieth
Century Harmony_ which employs ad hoc labels based on traditional names for
the scale's tetrachords; thus: A B C# D (major) E F G# A (harmonic). (Dr.
Lacy, was the Persichetti the source of your information? The "Hungarian
minor" is one of the scales in his inexhaustive survey.)

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University

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