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Compiling global examples of music in the Lydian Augmented Scale

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• Lydian Augmented: Sounds •

Real-world examples of the scale in action:

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• General: 

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• Lydian Augmented: More •

Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…

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A rare rotation of the Melodic Minor, distinctive for its mid-scale instabilities: both the 4th and 5th degrees are augmented, leaving the sequence absent of any perfect intervals from the root (‘detached’)…

 

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—Classifiers & Quirks—

• Modes: Melodic Minor set (Melodic Minor; Dorian b2; Lydian Augmented; Lydian Dominant; Mixolydian b6; Aeolian b5; Superlocrian)
• Quirks: Hemitonic; Maximal; Reflectional sym. (imperfect: root, #4, #5; detached: root, #5)
• Names: Lydian Augmented, Lydian #5 (Western)

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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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