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Compiling global examples of music in the Minor Hexatonic Scale

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(C-D-E^b-F-G-B^b-C)

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• Minor Hexatonic: Sounds •

Real-world examples of the scale in action:

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• General: 

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• India: Popular in Hindustani music as the basis for several ragas, notably including Nayaki Kanada (fabled to be a creation of legendary 12th-century poet-composer Gopal Nayak) – as well as Suha Kanada, Gaudgiri Malhar, and the near-extinct but historically influential Palas. Also turns up in South Indian Carnatic music as Raga Pushpalathika, classified as a ‘derived’ scale of mela #22 (Kharaharapriya/Dorian).

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• Minor Hexatonic: More •

Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…

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[analysis: coming soon]

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—Classifiers & Quirks—

• Modes: (none in index)
• Quirks: Hemitonic; Atritonal; Self-shadowing; Reflectional Symmetry (imperfect: ♮2; detached: none)
• Names: Minor Hexatonic, Aeolian/Dorian no6 (Western); Nayaki Kanada (Hindustani)

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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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