feat: overview of Melodic minor modes (jazz scale)

content/theory/scales/diatonic/index.md

@@ -3,37 +3,14 @@ title: Diatonic scales
 description: The seven 7-notes set rotations
 
 date: 2021-09-15
-diatonic:
-  major:
-    title: Major
-    chroma: "101011010101"
-    description: "Also known as the Ionian mode, the major scale consists of the seven distinct notes in a scale (C D E F G A B) and an eighth note that reproduces the first one in a higher octave. The first, third, and fifth degrees form a chord known as a major triad, which can be found in related major scales, like the harmonic major scale, which has a minor sixth triad. The melodic major scale, also known as the Aeolian dominant scale, has lowered sixth and seventh degrees."
-  dorian:
-    title: Dorian
-    chroma: "101101010110"
-    description: "The modern Dorian mode, also known as the Russian mode, is built around the D note, the second note on the major scale. Music experts consider it a minor chord because its third note is a minor third, meaning that it’s lowered by a half step and a flattened seventh note, which results in a melancholy sound."
-  phrygian:
-    title: Phrygian
-    chroma: "110101011010"
-    description: "The Phrygian scale, which begins on the E note, the third on the major scale, and ends at E major, is considered a minor chord due to its abundance of minor notes (second, third, sixth, and seventh), and as such, is infrequently used. Its dominant sound is somewhat exotic; flamenco music from Spain is often written in Phrygian mode."
-  lydian:
-    title: Lydian
-    chroma: "101010110101"
-    description: "The fourth mode, Lydian, is a bright-sounding mode that begins with the F note. It’s similar to the major scale with one exception: its fourth scale degree is raised by a semitone."
-  myxolydian:
-    title: Myxolydian
-    chroma: "101011010110"
-    description: "Also known as the dominant mode, the fifth mode, Mixolydian, covers G to G major on the keyboard and, like the Lydian mode, very similar to the major scale save for its seventh note, which is lowered by a semitone. Jazz and blues make excellent use of the Mixolydian mode."
-  minor:
-    title: Minor
-    chroma: "101101011010"
-    description: "The Aeolian, or natural minor mode, opens with the A note on the white keys of a piano keyboard, and follows the same scale degrees as the major scale, except for its minor third. Like the Dorian mode, it has a melancholy sound with an extra degree of sadness."
-  locarian:
-    title: Locrian
-    chroma: "110101101010"
-    description: "The seventh and final mode, Locrian, is also one of the least employed modes due to its dark and minor sound built around the B note. Like the Dorian, Aeolian, and Phrygian, the Locrian has a minor third, but also a minor second and fifth; the latter gives the mode a sense of being interrupted or unfinished. "
+
 ---
 
+
+# All diatonic scales and modes
+
+<youtube-embed video="YJO-Fm7uRX4"></youtube-embed>
+
 ## What Is a Diatonic Scale?
 
 A diatonic scale is a type of musical scale that contains seven tones of a note per octave (the distance between one note and the following note that also bears its name).
@@ -56,4 +33,9 @@ These scales always have a tonal center to which all the notes relate and lead t
 
 ## The 7 Modes of the Diatonic Scale
 
-<chroma-profile-collection :collection="$frontmatter.diatonic" />
+
+<script setup>
+  import diatonic from '#/db/scale/diatonic.yaml'
+</script>
+
+<chroma-profile-collection :collection="diatonic" />

content/theory/scales/index.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ date: 2021-08-28
 
 Scales are collections of pitch classes to play together. There's a plenty of such known and used [Note combinations](./study/index.md).
 
-Five notes is enough to construct the most simple and pleasant sounding [Pentatonic scales](./pentatonic/index.md). The most common scales nowadays are [Diatonic sets](./diatonic/index.md) of 7 notes, organized in a special way. Every note in such a scale has it's own distinct role as a [Scale degree](./degrees/index.md).
+Five notes is enough to construct the most simple and pleasant sounding [Pentatonic scales](./pentatonic/index.md). The most common scales nowadays are the 2 sets of 7 notes patterns: the [diatonic](./diatonic/index.md) and the [jazz/melodic](./melodic/index.md) families of scales. Every note in such a scale has it's own distinct role as a [Scale degree](./degrees/index.md).
 
 Breaking the diatonic rule the modernism era has discovered all the strange [Symmetrical scales](./symmetrical/index.md) that bring us more complex emotional effects. 
 

content/theory/scales/melodic/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+title: Melodic minor
+description: ''
+date: 2021-09-14
+---
+
+A great deal of modern jazz harmony arises from the modes of the ascending form of the melodic minor scale, also known as the jazz melodic minor scale. This scale is essentially a diatonic major scale with a lowered third, for example C–D–E♭–F–G–A–B–C. As with any other scale, the modes are derived from playing the scale from different root notes, causing a series of jazz scales to emerge.
+
+
+## The 7 modes of the Melodic Minor Scale
+
+<script setup>
+  import melodic from '#/db/scale/melodic.yaml'
+</script>
+
+<chroma-profile-collection :collection="melodic" />

content/theory/scales/symmetrical/index.md

@@ -34,15 +34,13 @@ Any scale having the same number of modes as notes is not a mode of limited tran
 
 ### Whole tone scale
 
-<chroma-profile link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_tone_scale" :chroma="'101010101010'" />
-
 Interval cycle 2 (C2).
 
 A whole-tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole tone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, there are only two complementary whole-tone scales, both six-note or hexatonic scales. A single whole tone scale can also be thought of as a "six-tone equal temperament".
 
 The whole-tone scale has no leading tone and because all tones are the same distance apart, "no single tone stands out, and the scale creates a blurred, indistinct effect". This effect is especially emphasised by the fact that triads built on such scale tones are all augmented triads. Indeed, all six tones of a whole-tone scale can be played simply with two augmented triads whose roots are a major second apart. Since they are symmetrical, whole-tone scales do not give a strong impression of the tonic or tonality.
 
-Whole tone scale was used notably by Bach and Mozart, Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov. H. C. Colles names as the "childhood of the whole-tone scale" the music of Berlioz and Schubert in France and Austria and then Russians Glinka and Dargomyzhsky.[9] Claude Debussy, who had been influenced by Russians, along with other impressionist composers made extensive use of whole tone scales. Voiles, the second piece in Debussy's first book of Préludes, is almost entirely within one whole-tone scale.
+Whole tone scale was used notably by Bach and Mozart, Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov. H. C. Colles names as the "childhood of the whole-tone scale" the music of Berlioz and Schubert in France and Austria and then Russians Glinka and Dargomyzhsky. Claude Debussy, who had been influenced by Russians, along with other impressionist composers made extensive use of whole tone scales. Voiles, the second piece in Debussy's first book of Préludes, is almost entirely within one whole-tone scale.
 
 The rāga Sahera in Hindustani classical music uses the same intervals as the whole-tone scale.
 

db/scale/diatonic.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+major:
+  title: Major
+  chroma: "101011010101"
+  description: "Also known as the Ionian mode, the major scale consists of the seven distinct notes in a scale (C D E F G A B) and an eighth note that reproduces the first one in a higher octave. The first, third, and fifth degrees form a chord known as a major triad, which can be found in related major scales, like the harmonic major scale, which has a minor sixth triad. The melodic major scale, also known as the Aeolian dominant scale, has lowered sixth and seventh degrees."
+dorian:
+  title: Dorian
+  chroma: "101101010110"
+  description: "The modern Dorian mode, also known as the Russian mode, is built around the D note, the second note on the major scale. Music experts consider it a minor chord because its third note is a minor third, meaning that it’s lowered by a half step and a flattened seventh note, which results in a melancholy sound."
+phrygian:
+  title: Phrygian
+  chroma: "110101011010"
+  description: "The Phrygian scale, which begins on the E note, the third on the major scale, and ends at E major, is considered a minor chord due to its abundance of minor notes (second, third, sixth, and seventh), and as such, is infrequently used. Its dominant sound is somewhat exotic; flamenco music from Spain is often written in Phrygian mode."
+lydian:
+  title: Lydian
+  chroma: "101010110101"
+  description: "The fourth mode, Lydian, is a bright-sounding mode that begins with the F note. It’s similar to the major scale with one exception: its fourth scale degree is raised by a semitone."
+myxolydian:
+  title: Myxolydian
+  chroma: "101011010110"
+  description: "Also known as the dominant mode, the fifth mode, Mixolydian, covers G to G major on the keyboard and, like the Lydian mode, very similar to the major scale save for its seventh note, which is lowered by a semitone. Jazz and blues make excellent use of the Mixolydian mode."
+minor:
+  title: Minor
+  chroma: "101101011010"
+  description: "The Aeolian, or natural minor mode, opens with the A note on the white keys of a piano keyboard, and follows the same scale degrees as the major scale, except for its minor third. Like the Dorian mode, it has a melancholy sound with an extra degree of sadness."
+locarian:
+  title: Locrian
+  chroma: "110101101010"
+  description: "The seventh and final mode, Locrian, is also one of the least employed modes due to its dark and minor sound built around the B note. Like the Dorian, Aeolian, and Phrygian, the Locrian has a minor third, but also a minor second and fifth; the latter gives the mode a sense of being interrupted or unfinished. "

db/scale/melodic.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+asc:
+  title: Melodic minor
+  roman: I
+  chroma: "101101010101"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_minor_scale"
+  description: "The jazz minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used. As the name implies, it is primarily used in jazz. It may be derived from the major scale with a minor third, making it a synthetic scale, and features a dominant seventh chord on the fifth degree (V) like the harmonic minor scale. Also known as the heptatonia seconda, jazz minor scale, Athenian Scale, or Ionian ♭3. This form of the scale is also the 5th mode of the acoustic scale. "
+phrygidorian:
+  title: Phrygidorian
+  roman: II
+  chroma: "110101010110"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_%E2%99%AD2_scale"
+  description: |
+    The Dorian ♭2 scale, also known as Phrygian ♯6, or the Cappadocian Scale is the second mode of the jazz minor scale (or the ascending melodic minor scale). It is on the second degree of the jazz minor scale. Without the minor second above the root, the scale would just be the Dorian mode. The reason it is also known as Phrygian ♯6 is because if the scale did not have the major 6th then it would be enharmonic with the Phrygian mode.
+
+    This scale is commonly used in Assyrian music, most especially in the folk dance genre. Though to add color and to retain the Phrygian tradition of Assyrian music, the major sixth may at times be simultaneously altered to the minor sixth during the course of the composition.
+lydaug:
+  title: "Lydian Augmented"
+  roman: III
+  chroma: "101010101101"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_augmented_scale"
+  description: |
+    The Lydian augmented scale (Lydian ♯5 scale) is the third mode of the ascending melodic minor scale or jazz minor scale. 
+
+    Generically the whole and half steps are:
+    -  W -  W -  W -  W -  H -  W -  H -
+
+    The scale may be thought of as a major scale with an augmented fourth and fifth, or as the relative to the melodic minor ascending scale (C Lydian augmented and A melodic minor ascending share the same notes).
+acoustic:
+  roman: IV
+  title: Acoustic
+  chroma: "101010110110"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_scale"
+  description: The acoustic scale, overtone scale, Lydian dominant scale, Lydian ♭7 scale, or the Pontikonisian Scale is a seven-note synthetic scale. This differs from the major scale in having an augmented fourth and a minor seventh scale degree. It is the fourth mode of the melodic minor ascending scale.[4][5] The term 'acoustic scale' is sometimes used to describe a particular mode of this seven-note collection (e.g. the specific ordering C–D–E–F♯–G–A–B♭) and is sometimes used to describe the collection as a whole (e.g. including orderings such as E–F♯–G–A–B♭–C–D).
+melmaj:
+  title: Melodic major
+  roman: V
+  chroma: "101011011010"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_dominant_scale"
+  description: |
+    The Melodic Major (also known as the Aeolian dominant scale, Olympian Scale, Mixolydian ♭6 [or ♭13], Aeolian major, and Hindu Scale) is the fifth mode of the melodic minor scale. It is named such because it is seen as a justifying the Augmented second in the harmonic major scale, by flattening the 7th, making it closer to the sixth, and thus closing the Augmented Second. Aeolian dominant typically refers to music that uses the scale both ascending and descending, whereas melodic major is used for music that ascends in the major scale and descends in aeolian dominant.
+
+    It corresponds to Raga Charukeshi in Indian Classical music.
+
+    This scale can also be obtained by raising the third degree of the natural minor scale or lowering the sixth degree of the mixolydian scale.
+aeolocrian:
+  roman: VI
+  title: Aeolocrian
+  chroma: "101101101010"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_diminished_scale"
+  description: The half diminished scale or Sisyphean Scale is a seven-note musical scale. It is more commonly known as the Locrian ♮2 scale, a name that avoids confusion with the diminished scale and the half-diminished seventh chord (minor seventh, diminished fifth). It is the sixth mode of the ascending form of the melodic minor scale (or jazz scale).
+altered:
+  title: Altered
+  roman: VII
+  chroma: "110110101010"
+  link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_scale"
+  description: |
+    In jazz, the altered scale, altered dominant scale, Palamidian Scale, or Super Locrian scale is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all non-essential tones have been altered. This means that it comprises the three irreducibly essential tones that define a dominant seventh chord, which are root, major third, and minor seventh and that all other chord tones have been altered. These are:
+
+    the fifth is altered to a ♭5 and a ♯5
+    the ninth is altered to a ♭9 and a ♯9
+    the eleventh is altered to a ♯11 (equivalent to a ♭5)
+    the thirteenth is altered to a ♭13 (equivalent to a ♯5)
+
+# jazz:
+#   title: Jazz Minor
+#   chroma: "1011010101010"
+#   description: "The jazz minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used. As the name implies, it is primarily used in jazz. It may be derived from the major scale with a minor third, making it a synthetic scale, and features a dominant seventh chord on the fifth degree (V) like the harmonic minor scale."