major scale
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- noun
- /ˈmeɪdʒər skeɪl/
- Specialized
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escala mayor
- When practicing piano, it's essential to master the C major scale before moving on to more complex pieces.
- C major scale
- flat major scale
- D major scale
See, you have the major scale as the centrepiece of Western music.
- See, you have the major scale as the centrepiece of Western music.
- The scale degree names correspond with the major scale.
- OK, so if I were to do CAC major scale using this additive technique, I would go like this.
Examples
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For practicing major scales with a recording, try tracks one and two from Jamey Aebersold's volume 21, Gettin' It Together.
Academic text (1994) -
Students could be instructed, for example, to compose an eight-measure melody using only the notes of the major scale or some other specified parameter.
Academic text (1994) -
One question scored with partial credit asked the student to identify the names of the notes in a C major scale.
Academic text (1999) -
See, you have the major scale as the centrepiece of Western music.
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Blues scales should also be introduced in various keys while working on the major scales.
Academic text (1994) -
Because most players are initially more familiar with major scales, further development of the technical capacity to play major scale patterns well is the starting point.
Academic text (1994) -
Instead, he immediately began playing his E-flat major scale, committing the same type of mistakes and ignoring them.
Academic text (2011) -
After students have reached a high level of proficiency in major scales, relative and parallel minor scales are added, as well as modes.
Academic text (2012) -
There are three types of trichords in a major scale (see Figure 7). Trichords beginning on scale degrees 1, 4, and 5 contain two whole steps.
Academic text (2011) -
The parent can help keep the student on task by making requests like, "Let me hear the A-flat major scale," or "Let me hear the piece with vibrato and then without vibrato."
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A common eight-note pattern in Western music with small steps between third and fourth and seventh and eighth
Antonyms
- Specialized
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A musical scale that sounds sad because some notes are lower than in a major scale
How Bright
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'major' (the musical mode/quality) modifies 'scale' (a series of notes), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the scale with a major (brighter/happier) character. While the precise interval pattern is technical knowledge, the general meaning is directly derivable and paralleled in other languages (e.g., Spanish 'escala mayor'), making it transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Major scale may come from two simple images: major meaning 'bigger' and scale meaning a 'ladder' of notes. Think of a ladder with bigger steps that rise and make a bright, 'happy' sound, and you have the seven notes we now call the major scale, which is the pattern many songs use.