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Showing posts with label 47. The Harmonic or Byzantine or Romani (Hungarian/gypsy/Ukrainian/flamenco) minor and double minor scale (also mode of Arabic Niavent scale). Show all posts
Showing posts with label 47. The Harmonic or Byzantine or Romani (Hungarian/gypsy/Ukrainian/flamenco) minor and double minor scale (also mode of Arabic Niavent scale). Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2016

47. The Harmonic or Byzantine or Romani or Hungarian or Ukrainian or Flamenco or Mohammedan minor and double minor scale, (also mode of Arabic Niavent scale)

The Byzantine double minor (or harmonic double minor scale )  scale is 1-3-1-2-1-3-1 in semitones, In other words it is the know oriental folk tetra-chord
1-3-1 doubled and linked in the middle with its repetition with a whole tone. It is also a mode of the Arabic-like scale Niavent in the Greek folk music (Niavent=2-1-3-1-1-3-1 )

Some times as Byzantine scale is mentioned the 7 notes scale, which is also called Harmonic double minor


 1-3 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 1 

Of course the Byzantine scales were many and were 7-notes but with frequencies not possible to play in our western 12-notes Bach scale.

The chords that fit to  the Byzantine or Romani or Hungarian double minor scale ,( we take here as an example the D Romani or Hungarian double  minor) are the next:


Notes of this scale:
D; E; F; G#/Ab; A; A#/Bb; C#/Db; D;
Interval structure of this scale:
2-1-3-1-1-3-1
Chords that fit in this scale:
Normal Triads: C#     C#m     C#aug     Dm     Ddim     Faug     A     Aaug     A#     A#m     A#dim 

Other Triads: Dsus2     Asus4 

4 Notes Chords: C#6     C#m6     Dm(maj7)     E7b5     Amaj7     A#maj7     A#7     A#7b5     A#m7     A#m(maj7)     A#m7b5     

Two nice positions of the  Romani (Gypsy)  double minor scale are the next. The first is the shape of major7 chord together with its shift by one semitone! The rule of this shape is 2 notes per string.


Other positions are the next 




The Byzantine or Romani (Gyspy)  or Mohammedan non-double  minor  scale is essentially (a cyclic permutation of )  the harmonic minor scale

1) Harmonic minor (called also mode of Hijazz ) = (1-3-1)-2-(-1-2-2),


A mode (cyclic permutation) of the harmonic minor is called  also 7-tone Blue-scale in American folk music.

Chords of the harmonic minor (intervals 2-1-2-2-1-3-1):



Triads:           min              dim aug         min           maj         maj       dim
Extended
4-notes chord: min/maj7    m7b5 maj7#5 min7 dom7 maj7     dim7

For example for the A harmonic minor(A,B,C,D,E,F,G#) (intervals 2-1-2-2-1-3-1) the chords are


iiidimIIIivVVIVII
AminBdimCaugDminEmajFmajG#dim
Aminmaj7Bm7b5Cmaj7#5Dmin7E7Fmaj7G#dim7


Typical progression
Typical chord progressions in A harmonic minor
i - iv - V7Am - Dm - E7
ii - V7 - iBm7b5 - E7 - Am

More general the chords that fit to the harmonic minor (not taking necessarily the notes in alternating order , that is take one leave one  or 1-3-5  etc) are the next




Notes of this scale:
A; B; C; D; E; F; G#/Ab; A;
Interval structure of this scale:
2-1-2-2-1-3-1
Chords that fit in this scale:
Normal Triads: Caug     Dm     Ddim     E     Eaug     F     Fm     Fdim     G#aug     G#dim     Am     Bdim 

Other Triads: Dsus2     Esus4     Asus4     Asus2 

4 Notes Chords: Dm6     Dm7     Dm7b5     Dº7     D7sus2     E7     E7#5     E7sus4     F6     Fm6     Fmaj7     Fm(maj7)     Fº7     G#º7     Am(maj7)     Bm7b5     Bº7 


Again a nice way to play the Harmonic minor on the fretboard with the rule of this shape is 2 notes per string, is the next









5 other ways to play this scale on the guitar fretboard are the next 







Two variations of the Byzantine double minor scale are the Persian and inverse Persian scales or

Persian scale or todi theta scale=(1-3-1-1-2-3-1) 
E.g. starting from C

Notes of this scale:
C; C#/Db; E; F; F#/Gb; G#/Ab; B; C;
Interval structure of this scale:
h (W+h) h h W (W+h) h
Chords that fit in this scale:
Normal Triads: C#     C#m     Caug     E     Eaug     Fm     Fdim     G#aug 

Other Triads: C#sus4     Esus2     F#sus4     F#sus2     Bsus4     Bsus2 

4 Notes Chords: C#maj7     C#7     C#m7     C#m(maj7)     C#7sus4     E6     Fm(maj7)     F#7sus4     F#7sus2     G#7#5     

Inverse Persian scale or Purvi Theta scale= (3-1-1-3-2-1-1) 

E.g. starting from C
Notes of this scale:
C; C#/Db; E; F#/Gb; G; G#/Ab; B; C;
Interval structure of this scale:
h (W+h) W h h (W+h) h
Chords that fit in this scale:
Normal Triads: C     C#m     Caug     C#dim     E     Em     Eaug     G#aug 

Other Triads: C#sus4     Esus2     F#sus4     F#sus2     Bsus4     Bsus2 

4 Notes Chords: Cmaj7     C#m7     C#m(maj7)     C#m7b5     C#7sus4     E6     Em6     F#7sus4     F#7sus2     G#7#5     C\E     C\G     
And a simple video comparing the chords in natural and harmonic minor