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Compiling global examples of music in the Neapolitan Minor Scale
1-b2-b3-4-5-b6-7
(C-Db-Eb-F-G-Ab-B-C)
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Real-world examples of the scale in action:
- General:
- India: Known in South Indian Carnatic music as Raga Dhenuka (mela #9), named for a legendary donkey-demon who terrorised the cowherds of Yamuna before being slain by Lord Krishna’s elder brother Balarama. So far, I can’t trace any exact instances of the scale in the North Indian classical repertoire.
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Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…
[analysis: coming soon]
—Classifiers & Quirks—
- Modes: (none in index)
- Quirks: Cohemitonic (imperfect: b3, ♮5, ♮7; detached: ♮7)
- Names: Neapolitan Minor, Harmonic Minor b2, Harmonic Phrygian (Western); Dhenuka (Carnatic)
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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