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RE: Major scale within the 13-triad scale?

🔗"Paul H. Erlich" <PErlich@...>

5/14/1998 2:58:59 PM
>> I failed to see anything special about his scale except the seven
>>just major triads. Someone should let Bill know that there is a 12-tone
scale
>>which contains just as many just major triads as, but one more just minor
>>triad than, his scale. Of course, this "better" scale doesn't have any "just
>>major scales."

>Erh? There's one, anyway:

> . .
> * * *
> * * * *
> . . .

Yes, of course. I was probably thinking of the full, 6-triad major
scale, which has two versions of the second scale degree (10/9 and 9/8)
depending on whether the harmony is a ii chord or a V chord.