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In music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 and music theory
Music theory

Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composer techniques....
, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
 or notes per octave
Octave

In music, an octave The octave is occasionally referred to as a diapason.The octave above an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated 8va, and the octave below 8vb....
. Famous examples include the whole tone scale
Whole tone scale

In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole step. There are only two whole tone scales, both six-note or Hexatonic scale scales:...
, C D E F G A C; the augmented
Augmentation (music)

In music and music theory augmentation is the lengthening or widening of rhythms, melody, interval s or chord s. The opposite is diminution .A melody or series of notes is augmented if the lengths of the notes are prolonged....
 scale, C D E G A B C; the Prometheus scale, C D E F A B C; and what some jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 theory calls the "blues scale
Blues scale

The term blues scale is used to describe a few scales with differing number of pitches and related characteristics.The hexatonic scale, or six note, blues scale consists of the Pentatonic scale#Minor pentatonic scale plus the 4 or 5 degree....
", C E F F G B C.

whole tone scale is a series of whole tones. It has two non-enharmonically equivalent positions: C D E F G A C and D E F G A B D.






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In music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 and music theory
Music theory

Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composer techniques....
, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
 or notes per octave
Octave

In music, an octave The octave is occasionally referred to as a diapason.The octave above an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated 8va, and the octave below 8vb....
. Famous examples include the whole tone scale
Whole tone scale

In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole step. There are only two whole tone scales, both six-note or Hexatonic scale scales:...
, C D E F G A C; the augmented
Augmentation (music)

In music and music theory augmentation is the lengthening or widening of rhythms, melody, interval s or chord s. The opposite is diminution .A melody or series of notes is augmented if the lengths of the notes are prolonged....
 scale, C D E G A B C; the Prometheus scale, C D E F A B C; and what some jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 theory calls the "blues scale
Blues scale

The term blues scale is used to describe a few scales with differing number of pitches and related characteristics.The hexatonic scale, or six note, blues scale consists of the Pentatonic scale#Minor pentatonic scale plus the 4 or 5 degree....
", C E F F G B C.

Whole tone scale

The whole tone scale is a series of whole tones. It has two non-enharmonically equivalent positions: C D E F G A C and D E F G A B D. It is primarily associated with the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
, who used it in such pieces of his as Voiles
Voiles

Voiles, a composition for solo piano, is the 2nd piece of Claude Debussy's Preludes . The title of the piece may mean either veils or sails; both connotations were intended by Debussy....
 and La vent dans la plaine, both from his first book of piano Préludes
Preludes (Debussy)

Claude Debussy's Pr?ludes are two sets of pieces for solo piano. They are divided into two separate livres, or books, of twelve prelude each....
.

This whole-tone scale has appeared occasionally and sporadically in jazz at least since Bix Beiderbecke
Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bix Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism....
's impressionistic piano piece In a Mist. Bop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 pianist Thelonius Monk often interpolated whole-tone scale flourishes into his improvisations and compositions.

Whole Tone Scale On C

Augmented scale

The augmented scale, also known in jazz theory as the symmetrical augmented scale, is so called because it can be thought of as an interlocking combination of two augmented triad
Augmented triad

In music, an augmented triad is a triad consisting of two major thirds....
s a minor second or minor third apart: C E G and E G B. It may also be called the "minor-third half-step scale" due to the series of intervals produced.

It made one of its most celebrated early appearances in Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
's Faust Symphony
Faust Symphony

A Faust Symphony in three character pictures , List of compositions by Franz Liszt , or simply the "Faust Symphony", was written by Hungary composer Franz Liszt and was inspired by Johann von Goethe's drama, Goethe's Faust....
 (Eine Faust Symphonie). While, "possibly the most famous," use of the augmented scale in jazz is in Oliver Nelson's solo on "Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments (song)

"Stolen Moments" is a jazz standard composed by Oliver Nelson. It is a sixteen-bar piece , though the Solo s are on a conventional minor key 12 bar blues structure....
", it was also used in the 20th century by composers Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók

B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
, Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt is an American composer. He is particularly noted for his pioneering Serialism, and electronic music....
, and Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
, by saxophonists John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 and Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson was an United States jazz Saxophone, clarinetist, arranger and composer....
 in the late 50s and early 60s, and bandleader Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane,"[1] he won 15 Grammys as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007....
.

Prometheus scale

The Prometheus scale is so called because of its prominent use in Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Chopin....
's symphonic poem
Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in one movement in which some extramusical program provides a narrative or illustrative element....
 Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. Scriabin himself called this set of pitches, voiced as the simultaneity (in ascending order) C F B E A D the "mystic chord". Others have referred to it as the "Promethean chord".

Blues scale

Since blue notes
Blue note

In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower Pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres....
 are alternate inflections, strictly speaking there can be no one blues scale, but the scale most commonly called "the blues scale" comprises a flatted seventh blue note, a flatted third blue note, and a flatted fifth blue note along with other pitches derived from the minor pentatonic scale: C E F F G B C.

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