Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns

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Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Slonimsky, Nicolas

Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres - from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard - have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns, for composition and improvisation. This is the ultimate scale, chord, arpeggiation, and musical construction reference guide.

Table of Contents

  1. Tritone Progression (One Octave into Two Parts)
  2. Ditone Progression (One Octave into Three Parts)
  3. Sesquitone Progression (One Octave into Four Parts)
  4. Whole-Tone Progression (One Octave into Six Parts)
  5. Semitone Progression (One Octave into Twelve Parts)
  6. Quadritone Progression (Two Octaves into Three Parts)
  7. Sesquiquadritone Progression (Three Octaves into Four Parts)
  8. Quinquetone Progression (Five Octaves into Six Parts)
  9. Diatessaron Progression (Five Octaves into Twelve Parts)
  10. Septitone Progression (Seven Octaves into Six Parts)
  11. Diapente Progression (Seven Octaves into Twelve Parts)
  12. Sesquiquinquetone Progression (Eleven Octaves into Twelve Parts)
  13. Heptatonic Scales
  14. Heptatonic Arpeggios
  15. Pentatonic Scales
  16. Bitonal Arpeggios
  17. Twelve-Tone Patterns (Dodecaphonic)
  18. Crossing Intervals
  19. Dvision of Twelve Tones into Four Mutually Exclusive Triads
  20. Quadritonal Arpeggios
  21. Invertible Dodecaphonic Progressions
  22. Intervallic Series
  23. Mirror Interval Progressions
  24. Complementary Scales
  25. Permutations
  26. Pandiatonic Progressions
  27. Double Notes
  28. Plural Scales and Arpeggios
  29. Polytonal Scales
  30. Polyrhythmic Scales
  31. Plytonal Polyrhythmic Scales
  32. Palindromic Canons
  33. Autochordal
  34. Harmonization
  35. Harmonization in Major Triads and Seventh Chords
  36. Synopsis of Chords

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