Octatonic scale out, the cascading arpeggios played on the celesta in the "Sugar Plum Fairy" from "The Nutcracker" ballet are made up of dominant seventh chords a minor third apart. "Hagens Watch", one of the darkest and most sinister scenes in Richard Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" features chromatic harmonies using eleven of the twelve chromatic notes, within which the eight notes of the octatonic scale may be found in bars 9–10 below:] The scale also may be found in the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Melodic phrases that move by alternating tones and semitones frequently appear in the works of both
Bebop scale as the bebop minor scale) is derived from the Dorian mode and has a chromatic passing tone between the minor 3rd and the perfect 4th. \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> It has all the notes in both the Dorian scale and the Mixolydian scale of the same root. It is the 5th mode of the bebop dominant scale. A second form of the bebop Dorian scale features a major seventh bebop note between the dominant seventh and the tonic. \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> The second style, featuring the major seventh, is