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Compiling global examples of music in the Dorian #4 Scale

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• Dorian #4: Sounds •

Real-world examples of the scale in action:

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• General: 

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• India: Used regularly in South Indian Carnatic music as Hemavati (melakarta scale #58) – a name which translates as ‘the one which is golden’. Also adopted into Northern Hindustani music in recent generations under the same name, possibly via the efforts of legendary bansuriya Hariprasad Chaurasia (although other Hindustani artists have titled the same scale ‘Madhukant’).

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• Dorian #4: More •

Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…

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[analysis: coming soon]

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—Classifiers & Quirks—

• Modes: Harmonic Minor set (Harmonic Minor; Locrian ♮6; Ionian Augmented; Dorian #4; Phrygian Dominant; Lydian #2; Superlocrian Diminished)
• Quirks: Hemitonic (imperfect: #4, ♮6, b7; detached: #4)
• Names: Dorian #4, ‘Ukranian Dorian‘ (Western); Madhukant (Hindustani); Hemavati (Carnatic); Mi Sheberakh (Klezmer)

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n.b. For more detailed geometric and mathematical analysis, refer to this scale’s entry in Ian Ring’s fantastic Exciting Universe of Music Theory project (for which I am an occasional ‘raga consultant’)

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