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Musical Scales – Why we have scales and how they are made
Most students on a musical instrument hate playing scales, but too many of them only think they learn scales as some sort of finger exercise. How wrong! Instead, all music students will be informed that the weights are the building blocks from which all music is created and that they can use these vital Blocks to create music for themselves. To do this we first need to understand what scales are and how they came to.
Musical game a major role in the development of scales. The earliest musical instruments resulted in a limited number of playable notes. Maybe a pipe instrument was barred by a hollow tube and holes were made in what could
be covered or uncovered when blowing through it to produce a series of pitch variations. If music was to be written down for this instrument is apparent that only the exact notes playable should be written. Thus, the volume of notes, only these, says 5, notes ascending or descending in sequence after pitch.
As instruments further developed several notes could be achieved and in the Western world, we eventually created instruments that can all play at least 12 different spaces between notes an octave apart.
Hang on! I hear you say, "What is an octave?" An octave is the difference between two notes seats that are 12 semitones apart. If you listen to these two notes, it almost looks as though they are the same note pitch. These notes are named with the same letter name like C and C. If you pluck a string of a given length, it will vibrate at so many cycles per second (or hertz) produces a sound at a certain pitch, say 220Hz (an A). This memo called the basics. The string does funny things though, and it also vibrates at twice the number of Hz, but at half the volume of the fundamental. This means that a second note is also produced, which is an octave above the first (in this case A at 440Hz), but only half as high. This explains the close relationship between notes an octave apart. Basically, double the frequency (Hz) and you will get a note is an octave above.
Of course there are instruments in the west, which may produce note pitches between semitones, such as a stringed instrument as a violin or cello, but since they often have to perform with other instruments in the 12 semitones Black, aware that they produce between these places is usually regarded as just "out of tune!" In the east, scales still applied, making use of the instruments to achieve the seats is smaller than a semitone apart, and singers are also better able to sing pitch variations of "quarter-tones."
In the West, limiting most of our scales at seven different places in the octave came about largely as a result of the singers use a light chain of notes to the course. So it was with our Major scale.
So that's how we got our scales. Now, certainly, make-up of our most common modern scales may not seem so much of a mystery. We know that they are easy to sing chain of 8 note pitches over an octave, 1 and 8 Two notes of the same letter name. The distance between each note pitches can be one, two or even three semitones. In future articles I will discuss why we have major and minor Scales and how you can use these Building Blocks of music to create melodies and chords.
About the Author
Brian Farley has been a worldwide professional Musical Director and pianist since 1974. His duet sheet music website “Easy Duets, Sheet Music for Schools, Musical Instrument Students” provides original musical duets and trios for early level students and some good free “reading musical notation” information.
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