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
- Tritone Progression (One Octave into Two Parts)
- Ditone Progression (One Octave into Three Parts)
- Sesquitone Progression (One Octave into Four Parts)
- Whole-Tone Progression (One Octave into Six Parts)
- Semitone Progression (One Octave into Twelve Parts)
- Quadritone Progression (Two Octaves into Three Parts)
- Sesquiquadritone Progression (Three Octaves into Four Parts)
- Quinquetone Progression (Five Octaves into Six Parts)
- Diatessaron Progression (Five Octaves into Twelve Parts)
- Septitone Progression (Seven Octaves into Six Parts)
- Diapente Progression (Seven Octaves into Twelve Parts)
- Sesquiquinquetone Progression (Eleven Octaves into Twelve Parts)
- Heptatonic Scales
- Heptatonic Arpeggios
- Pentatonic Scales
- Bitonal Arpeggios
- Twelve-Tone Patterns (Dodecaphonic)
- Crossing Intervals
- Dvision of Twelve Tones into Four Mutually Exclusive Triads
- Quadritonal Arpeggios
- Invertible Dodecaphonic Progressions
- Intervallic Series
- Mirror Interval Progressions
- Complementary Scales
- Permutations
- Pandiatonic Progressions
- Double Notes
- Plural Scales and Arpeggios
- Polytonal Scales
- Polyrhythmic Scales
- Plytonal Polyrhythmic Scales
- Palindromic Canons
- Autochordal
- Harmonization
- Harmonization in Major Triads and Seventh Chords
- Synopsis of Chords
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