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"ACCIDENTALS
HAPPEN! A Compilation of Scales",
available for violin,
viola,
cello,
double bass,
flute,
clarinet,
french horn,
bassoon,
oboe,
saxophone,
trumpet,
trombone,
tuba
& keyboard is several
scale books in one. It is a classical music scale book,
a jazz scale book and a world music scale book since it
includes scales widely used in all three of these wide
categories of music. Classical musicians will find it
useful in working with traditional classical repertoire
as well as a good resource for expanding into newer
classical music and non-classical styles of music. Jazz
musicians will find that it provides a good
cross-section of scales found in jazz repertoire. Also,
musicians in other styles of world music will find a
good variety of scales applicable to various other music
traditions. Included are twenty-six different scales
which are building blocks for many types of music
including jazz, western classical music, some ethnic and
eastern music. Each different scale is notated in all
fifteen key signatures for a total of 390 scales notated
in the book. The half steps are indicated where
applicable as is the augmented second interval in a few
scales where this larger interval is important to the
tonal identity of the scale. For each scale type in this
book, there is accompanying reference material that
explains the interval relationships, which types of
music utilize these scales and which composers and
artists utilized certain scales in their music. The
twenty-six scales included in this book are the
following:
•Major
•Harmonic Minor •Melodic Minor
•Dorian Mode •Phrygian Mode •Lydian Mode
•Mixolydian Mode •Aeolian Mode •Locrian Mode
•Major Pentatonic •Minor Pentatonic •Spanish/Jewish
•Hungarian Minor •Arabic •Hindu
•Augmented •Lydian Augmented •Major Diminished
•Minor Diminished •Whole Tone •Diminished Whole Tone
•Harmonic Major •Blues •Bebop •Lydian Dominant •Chromatic
This book is designed to be used in routine daily
practicing to improve one's ability to sight-read
unexpected accidentals and become more familiar with the
diverse musical harmonies existent in a wide variety of
western and world music.
For those who purchase the book and start to work with it,
I would be very interested to get feedback on your
experience with the book. Tell me what you think is good
about it, or not good about it, or feel free to suggest
things in it that might be improved or modified. I have
labeled this the FIRST EDITION because I anticipate that
it will evolve with the help of the expertise of those
who are using it to make it even better and more useful
in the future.
William H. Somach
