WORKBOOK – MODULE 6
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Exercise 6.1
Beginning with C major, draw the 15 major scales in both clefs using tetrachords. Indicate tetrachords with a
bracket.
Note:
- Amajor scale consists of two tetrachords.
- Each tetrachord pattern consists of: whole step, whole step, half step. The second tetrachord of a scale begins
adiatonic whole step above the last note of the first tetrachord. - As shown below, the second tetrachord of C major becomes the first tetrachord of the following scale, G
major. The same principle applies to each subsequent scale. - The three pairs of enharmonic scales are C#–Db, F#–Gband B–Cb.
- There are at most seven different sharps or seven different flats in a major scale.
- The number of sharps increases from one sharp in G major up to seven sharps in C#major.
- The number of flats decreases from seven flats in Cbmajor to one flat in F major.
- C major 2. G major (1 sharp)
- Dmajor (2 sharps) 4. A major (3 sharps)
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