Music A-Level
Symmetrical scales
What Symmetrical scales means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Symmetrical scales
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Scales such as the whole-tone or octatonic, used as a technique to create tonal ambiguity.
Topics that use Symmetrical scales
- Area of study 7: Art music since 1910 - Musical elements (AQA A-Level)
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- 20th-century chord structures
- 20th-century compositional techniques
- 20th-century rhythmic innovation
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- Additive and subtractive processes
- Alternatives to functional tonality
- Atonality
- Atonality and tonality
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