The Scale of C Subminor

Abstract

AN attempt to reconstruct the Soft Diatonic mode leads to the following nine-note scale, which combines perfectly with the diatonic scale with the exception of F (3: 4),—the key-note, dominant, leading-note and octave being identical in the two scales. The intervals are given in logarithmic cents. The fifth column gives Tartini's terzo suono and Thomas Young's fourth sound where the intervals from the tonic are consonant. The fourth note of the scale forms a dissonance with the tonic, but is consonant with the subminor second, sixth, and seventh, and with the major seventh.