In popular music, examples of songs in harmonic minor include Katy B's " Easy Please Me", Bobby Brown's " My Prerogative", and Jazmine Sullivan's " Bust Your Windows". A ring of twelve is sometimes augmented with a 5♯ and 6♭ to make a 10 note harmonic minor scale from bell 2 to bell 11 (for example, Worcester Cathedral). A familiar example of the descending scale is heard in a Ring of bells. In this role, it is used while descending far more often than while ascending. 14), and Schubert (for example, in the first movement of the Death and the Maiden Quartet). Instances can be found in Mozart, Beethoven (for example, the finale of his String Quartet No. While it evolved primarily as a basis for chords, the harmonic minor with its augmented second is sometimes used melodically. Whole, half, whole, whole, half, augmented second, half The intervals between the notes of a harmonic minor scale follow the sequence below:
Thus, a harmonic minor scale is represented by the following notation:Ī harmonic minor scale can be built by lowering the 3rd and 6th degrees of the parallel major scale by one semitone.īecause of this construction, the 7th degree of the harmonic minor scale functions as a leading tone to the tonic because it is a semitone lower than the tonic, rather than a whole tone lower than the tonic as it is in natural minor scales.
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