Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns

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