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Compiling global examples of music in the Harmonic Minor Scale
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Real-world examples of the scale in action:
- General:
- India: Matches the form of the well-known Carnatic Ragam Keeravani (melakarta scale #21), popular amongst South Indian composers for several centuries. Also borrowed into Northern Hindustani music over the past few generations (as ‘Kirwani’), chiefly via the efforts of sitar icon Ravi Shankar.
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Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…
[analysis: coming soon]
—Classifiers & Quirks—
- Modes: Harmonic Minor set (Harmonic Minor; Locrian ♮6; Ionian Augmented; Dorian #4; Phrygian Dominant; Lydian #2; Superlocrian Diminished)
- Quirks: Hemitonic (imperfect: ♮2, b3, ♮7; detached: ♮7)
- Names: Harmonic Minor (Western); Kirwani (Hindustani/Carnatic), Bayat-e-Esfahan (Maqam)
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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