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Topic: minor scales in thirds, fingering?  (Read 2312 times)

Offline Bob

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minor scales in thirds, fingering?
on: February 04, 2010, 07:41:01 PM
Are there any easily findable out there?

I'm thinking melodic asending, descending, in thirds.
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Re: minor scales in thirds, fingering?
Reply #1 on: February 06, 2010, 04:10:31 AM
We do not teach melodic mode any more, nor will you find it in the literature. Harmonic mode is now and has been standard for many years.

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Re: minor scales in thirds, fingering?
Reply #2 on: February 06, 2010, 04:36:12 AM
Tausig's selection of 29 studies from Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum contains the major and melodic minor scales in thirds:

https://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/1/18/IMSLP03742-Clementi-Tausig_Gradus_1.pdf

(They start at page 110.)
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Re: minor scales in thirds, fingering?
Reply #3 on: February 06, 2010, 04:51:54 AM
We do not teach melodic mode any more, nor will you find it in the literature. Harmonic mode is now and has been standard for many years.

 :-\  Huh?  Harmonic minor for harmonies.  Melodic minor for scales (melodies).  Natural... because it's there.  ::)

I guess it is a little odd to think a scale mode with chords.  

I see this as being equal to the melodic minor scale...
i iio III iv V VI viio i   ascending  (though now I'm wondering about IV...)

i bVII VI V iv III iio i


It sounds ok for triads.  I've got major thirds down as a scale so I want to get something down with minor scales in thirds.  And chromatic too.  I was wondering if someone already had fingerings listed somewhere, although it is interesting to come up with my own too.
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