Major Locrian scale "Harmonic Materials of Modern Music" devotes several pages to the major Locrian, or more precisely to its transpositional set class, a concept Hanson pioneered. He names this transpositional class the "seven-tone impure major second scale", and notes that the various modes of the major Locrian can all be defined as the whole tone scale with one additional note, and where that note occurs does not affect the transpositional class. He also notes that the scale has the property that every three-note chord possible in the twelve tone chromatic scale already appears in the major Locrian. Examples are given of the
In scale and containing notes between them, as in the "miyako-bushi" scale used in "koto" and "shamisen" music and whose pitches are equivalent to the "in" scale: In Indian classical music, Gunkali (Hindustani) and Karnataka Shuddha Saveri (Carnatic) are nearly identical to the pentatonic "in" scale, highlighting the shared past of their origins. Some rare examples of ancient genres of Andean music (e.g. k'antu) use a scale similar to the "in" scale combined with melody leading with a parallel fifths and fourths. For example listen to "Machulas Kantu" by Bolivia Manta folk group ("Wiñayataqui", 1981). In scale The in" scale (also known