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The evolution of scales in this text begins with the ancient pentatonic colors, providing our two main creative environments, the major and minor tonalities. Adding the tritone color into these pentatonic groups becomes the catalyst for the American colors to emerge, at least from a historical perspective. Splitting the concept of tonality into the 2 part dichotomy of the major and minor tonalities, here is a chart of the common American melodic colors. Example 1.
So, what does the chart imply? Simply that musicologists find these pentatonic colors as far back in our civilized history as they been able to venture thus far thus far. A common choice for indigenous players globally for creating their magic, the pentatonic colors enjoy current fame in all of the styles of American music. Rockers and blues players, kids love pentatonic melodies, in the new age music and modern jazz players, who oftentimes use the ancient pentatonic colors to move outside the realms of structured tonality.
Adding the tritone color to the pentatonic groups we evolve to the major / minor tonal system of equal temper and the blues colors, which when combined, create the core pitches of the American sounds. Further examination from this level reveals the 7 church modes, nowadays contained within equal temper, as well as harmonic and melodic minor colors, each of which contribute and create their own unique color and emotional environment. The least pentatonic of the colors so to speak are perhaps the symmetrical scales, one for each of the major and minor tonalities, totally interchangeable. Cool huh? Ideas on this layout of the melodic resources? Comments / questions?
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Other artistic considerations within this section? How about artistic techniques?
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