Rare Musical Scales

[ChamMusic]

It is interesting to note that John Rahn, Elliott Antokoletz, and George Perle all discussed the same phenomena from slightly different angles.

I don't think that a consensus has ever been achieved regarding the best method for classifying these methods of tonal organization. Personally, I found Rahn's exposition to be the most intuitive, but that doesn't really mean much.

I will look up the words of Rahn and Antokoletz (only thing I know about the latter is his Bartok writings and Paul Rahn is new to me). Perle I did touch on at Uni,(35+ years ago) with his '12-tone something or other...tonality'? I vaguely remember it being a slightly different approach to Schoenberg, Berg and the 2nd Viennese lot. Hadn't realized that he wrote quite so much in other areas as such.

[jancivil]

So long as you use the 12 tone western system there are no rare scales. Everything starts with the chromatic and works it's way down from there. More often then not as you go down that route of irregular intervals it serves not to inspire but to alienate. Whilst I'm not a fan of djent or most edm as they fear embellishment beyond simply diatonic structures. There is something to be said for working within "Common frameworks"

"Everything starts with the chromatic and works it's way down from there."
Go home, you're drunk.

[ericzang]

D purvi theta
and consists of the following notes:

D Eb F# G# A Bb C#

These notes are found in the Indian Raga (Raag) Puriya Dhanashri, as well as Purvi.