Reply to Robert Valentine (was: MOSniks)

(moved from MakeMicroMusic)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., Robert C Valentine <BVAL@I...> wrote:
>
> This gets into a "religious" sort of thing. If you never use
> a note in a scale, is it still there?
>
> For instance, 1 2 b3 #4 5 6 b7 is the fourth mode of harmonic
> minor (all alterations are in West-speak, related to a mythical
> major scale... ignore tuning for a second (hey, stop hitting)).
>
> Someone might say, "oh, thats the diminished scale
> [1 2 b3 4 #4 5 6 b7]

Umm . . . wait a minute. The diminished scale is either

[1 2 b3 4 #4 #5 6 7]

or

[1 b2 b3 3 #4 5 6 b7]

> and you never played the fourth degree". In
> this case, its back to being diatonic.

You mean back to being MOS?