| 1. | Why is the 4th scale degree a graphic inversion of the 7th?
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| 2. | This structure avoids half step intervals by eliminating the fourth and seventh scale degrees.
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| 3. | The number of scale degrees and the distance between them together define a scale.
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| 4. | Horn fifths occur when the upper voice is on the first three scale degrees.
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| 5. | However, these tunes do sound Irish because of their inclusion of the sixth scale degree.
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| 6. | In harmonic minor scales, the augmented second occurs between the sixth and seventh scale degrees.
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| 7. | However, there is no requirement that musicians associate the solf�ge symbols with the scale degrees.
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| 8. | A major scale can be transformed to its parallel minor by sharpening those same scale degrees.
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| 9. | Some minor tunes, including Windham ( below ), are printed with a raised seventh scale degree.
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| 10. | Put another way, the key whose tonic is the dominant scale degree in the main key.
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