The Architecture of Music

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Classifying Scales

Scale Classification

The interval diagrams of chords and scales can be described in four different ways as can be seen on this page and the next.

Perfect Scales have all notes connected around the COF.

Imperfect Scales have at least one disconnected note around the COF.

If a scale is symmetrical, both its interval and COF patterns are symmetrical (above).