SLONIMSKY - a brief overview - part 1

some excerpts from the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicolas Slonimsky
MacMillan Publishing Company
Could be used: anywhere you use a
half-whole diminished scale
C7, Eb7, F#7, A7
whole-half diminished scale
Bdim7,Ddim7,Fdim7,Abdim7
and more.....

CHAPTER 1
equal division of one octave
into two parts

Interpolation of one note

pattern #1

pattern #2

Could be used: anywhere you use a

lydian b7 scale
D7, (D7#11), Ab7, Ab7#11
wholetone
C7#5,D7#5,E7#5,F#7#5,Ab7#5,Bb7#5
whole-half diminished scale
Cdim7,Ebdim7,F#dim7,Adim7
and more.....

Ultrapolation of one note

pattern #58 (samenotes as pattern

1)

Ultrapolation of one note

pattern #53 (same notes as pattern 1)

Interpolation of two notes

pattern #5

Could be used:
same as pattern #2

Ultrapolation of two notes

pattern #59 (same notes as pattern 5)

Could be used on:

Dbmaj7#5, Fmaj7#5, Amaj7#5
(one of 2 augmented scales - Bbmin7, Dmin7, F#min7 or minmaj7
min 2nd - min 3rd scale)
and more.....

pattern #188

Ultrapolation of one note

CHAPTER 5
equal division of two octaves into
into three parts

CHAPTER 3
equal division of one octave
into four parts

pattern #181

CHAPTER 2
equal division of one octave
into three parts

pattern #182

Could be used on:

Cmaj7#5, Emaj7#5, Abmaj7#5

(the other augmented scale - Amin7, C#min7, Fmin7 or minmaj7

min 3rd - min 2nd scale)
and more.....

Interpolation of one note

Could be used: anywhere you use a

half-whole diminished scale
C7, Eb7, F#7, A7 [C7b9,13]

Could be used on:

same as pattern #182

pattern #393

(one of 2 diminished scales half - whole scale)

Could be used on:

same as pattern #182

pattern #683 (contains same notes as pattern 188/182)

pattern #392

(whole - half diminished scale)

CHAPTER 7
pattern #740

equal division of three octaves

into four parts

pattern #784

pattern #394

pattern #398

Could be used:
same as pattern #394

Could be used:
same as pattern #394

Could be used:
same as pattern #394

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