The Hexatonic Scale And Its Subsets

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This 3rd episode in the series on the Pressing Scales explains the hexatonic set and its subsets using examples from Scriabin's 8th Sonata and more.
What's your favorite subset of the hexatonic scale?
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@Poeme340 8 ай бұрын

At 3:15-I also love this brief phrase at the beginning of the 8th. To me, it sounds so tragic but, as always with Scriabin, elegant as well. Thx for the education.👍☮️

@jaybeardmusic8074 8 ай бұрын

Yesss tragic and mystical at the same time. Glad you appreciate it!

@Racosz 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video as usual. Introduction from the first movement from "Faust-Symphonie" by Franz Liszt (based on augmented triads) used the Augmented Scale (3+1) as superposition of two augmented triads in relation of a semitone. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

@jaybeardmusic8074 8 ай бұрын

Ah very cool, thanks for sharing that example! Quite an early example using two augmented chords a half step apart! It definitely technically counts as using the hexatonic scale, although it doesn’t really let all six pitches ever sound simultaneously. It’s done as a melody and at any given time only one augmented chord is heard sounding together. All this is to say that the more harsh dissonance would come from it being used harmonically, so Liszt uses it melodically instead. Here’s a link to the piece he mentioned if anyone’s curious kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gd6gddV9sMuxdIU.htmlsi=khBzxwuq-tHvieGj

@jyotektosgaimur 8 ай бұрын

the song stockholm syndrome by muse kind of uses this (melodically, not harmonically) as a run in its post chorus (F5-G#5-A5-C5-C#5)

@jaybeardmusic8074 8 ай бұрын

Mmm yea cool you noticed! Little 5-21 used melodically there. However listening to it myself, I think of this in D as that’s the next not it resolves to. If you include D (D F G# A C C#) we get 6-z44 like the Scriabin chord I mentioned in this video!

@jyotektosgaimur 8 ай бұрын

@@jaybeardmusic8074 wouldnt the G have to be flat for it to be a 6-z44?

@jaybeardmusic8074 8 ай бұрын

@@jyotektosgaimurWith a Gb (D F Gb A C C#) is also 6-z44. So is the scale I mentioned (D F G# A C C#). You can type the pitches into a set calculator to see.

@neilr5208 8 ай бұрын

👍

@mantictac 7 ай бұрын

I notice you have some cubes behind you! Are you a speedcuber by any chance?

@jaybeardmusic8074 7 ай бұрын

Ayy I’m not exactly fast at solving them (1.5 minutes for a 3x3), but I’m a cube enthusiast for sure and I’ve solved all the cubes up to a 7x7 cube! There’s totally a link between people into Rubik’s cubes and music! Sounds like you’re into both as well!

@joeyhardin5903 8 ай бұрын

How is a 'pressing scale' defined?

@jaybeardmusic8074 8 ай бұрын

I explain in depth in the first episode of the series: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kKiTfNV6m9OoYmw.htmlsi=BpH0hZaFpfEL7g24

@user-ne5mw4dd8e 8 ай бұрын

I’m studying Music and I don’t understand 90% of this video😂😂

@jaybeardmusic8074 8 ай бұрын

Haha yea it’s some advanced music theory that they don’t start teaching till theory 4. If you’d like to understand some of the foundational concepts of set theory (the branch of music theory a lot of this is based off of) check out my series “set theory simplified” kzfaq.info/sun/PLKWIRLQnfaw1KUMTG3b9mFrt0D3MFHvPF&si=AV1n3w9GV-66qWVM