Harmonic scale It was invented by Wendy Carlos and used on three pieces on her album "Beauty in the Beast" (1986): "Just Imaginings", "That's Just It", and "Yusae-Aisae". Versions of the scale have also been used by Ezra Sims and Frans Richter Herf. Though described by Carlos as containing "144 [= 12] distinct pitches to the octave", the twelve scales include 78 (= ) notes per octave. Technically there should then be duplicates and thus 57 (= 78 − 21) pitches (21 = ). For example, a perfect fifth above G (D) is the major tone above C. Harmonic scale The Harmonic
Harmonic major scale of harmonic major but have not been recognized as doing so. Examples are 'After You've Gone', 'Blackbird', 'Sleep Walk', 'Dream A Little Dream Of Me'. Harmonic major scale In music theory, the harmonic major scale is a musical scale found in some music from the common practice era and now used occasionally, most often in jazz. It was named by Rimsky-Korsakov. In George Russell's "Lydian Chromatic Concept" it is the fifth mode (V) of the Lydian Diminished scale. It can be considered a major scale with the sixth degree lowered, Ionian 13, or the harmonic minor scale with the third