What is the name of this musical scale?
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What is the name of this musical scale?
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All my sources on scales love to cite Twentieth-Century Harmony, so I'll do it to. According to Vincent Persichetti, that is an "Oriental Scale." This scale is based around the pattern H A2 H H A2 A2 W (H=Halfstep W=Wholestep A2= Augmented second) See page 22 of the book linked in this answer for this more.
It is the fifth mode of the Double Harmonic Scale.
However my western ears tend to hear a tonal center around E not B, which would make it the tonic scale (Double Harmonic).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_harmonic_scale
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