 It also does not easily fit into common Western chord progressions such as the authentic cadence.This is because it is mostly used as a modal scale, not intended for much movement through chord progressions.The Arabic scale (in the key of E) was used in Nikolas Roubanis's "Misirlou", and in the Bacchanale from the opera "Samson and Delilah" by Saint-Saëns.