Talk:Synthetic scale

Changed redirect for this heading to new article.
"Synthetic scale" was previously a redirect to "Musical scale". While this latter article does mention synthetic scales briefly (without naming them as synthetic scales), this article is now dedicated to them and gives a little more detail on them. It retains a link to "Musical scale", though. M.J.E. 19:29, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Ref improve
I added one reference and changed the Unreferenced tag to a ref improve tag. What information needs to be verified and cited? Hyacinth (talk) 23:11, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I added another source and an example and removed some content and the tag. Hyacinth (talk) 21:43, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Prometheus Scale - is it really synthetic in the sense mentioned?
I like this page very much but thought that I might draw attention to what may be an inconsistency between the following passages.. “In music, a synthetic scale is a scale which has been derived from a traditional diatonic major scale through the alteration of one degree by a semitone in either direction[1]...” “Scriabin's Mystic chord, when considered as the "Prometheus scale", is an example of a synthetic chord in that it is whole tone scale with one degree altered” My problem with this being that the Prometheus scale cannot be made by the alteration of one degree of a semitone in either direction from a diatonic major scale. To make this example into a G Major (which I believe is the closest such major diatonic in this key) would require not only the Addition of one note (G!) but the alteration of another, the sharpening of the B.

Am I right here?

Andrew F. (talk) 01:23, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The next sentence reads: "Composer Ferruccio Busoni originally explored these scales in his A New Esthetic of Music[2] and their number and variety were later clarified by J. Murray Barbour who also proposed the application of the procedure to scales of more or less than seven degrees, including pentatonic scales." Hyacinth (talk) 19:47, 12 December 2015 (UTC)