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
Chromatic circle major (Ionian mode), minor (Aeolian mode) and Mixolydian - include these pitches. Symmetric scales have simple representations in this scheme. More exotic scales - such as the pentatonic, blues and octatonic - can also be drawn and related to the common scales. A more complete list of musical scales and modes In previous sections we saw how various overlays (scale degrees, semi-tone numbering, notes) can be used to notate the circumference of the constellation. Various other overlays can be laid around the constellation. For example: Note that once a pitch constellation has been determined, any number of overlays (notes, solfège,