What's Your Favorite Scale?

[karlhenning]

Eek! "Baby carrots"! the horror! : )

[Octo_Russ]

D Minor for me too,

Mozart - Piano Concerto 20
Shostakovich - Symphony 5
Schubert - String Quartet 14
Mozart - Requiem
Brahms - Piano Concerto 1
Sibelius - Violin Concerto

just seems to hit the right spot for me.

[DavidRoss]

D Minor for me too,

Mozart - Piano Concerto 20
Shostakovich - Symphony 5
Schubert - String Quartet 14
Mozart - Requiem
Brahms - Piano Concerto 1
Sibelius - Violin Concerto

just seems to hit the right spot for me.

Several of my faves there, too.    And the Rach 3 pc, Sibelius 6, Mahler 9, Bruckner 9, LvB 9, Prokofiev 2, Dvorak 7, RVW 8, Mozart's K 421 quartet, and Bach's D minor violin partita, 2nd cello suite, double violin cto, and Art of Fugue. 

We used to have active member who called himself D minor.  I expect he'd also agree!

[jochanaan]

This one's nice:

Oh no, I don't carrot all for that one.

[jowcol]

Any minor, but b and a in particular.

I agree about preferring minors to majors.  Most of my Bach mp3 collection is sorted with the minors first.

[DavidRoss]

Oh no, I don't carrot all for that one.

Then perhaps this will appease you:

[karlhenning]

Taking fully grown carrots and cutting them to make them smaller was the idea of California farmer Mike Yurosek. Yurosek was unhappy at having to discard carrots because of slight rotting or imperfections, and looked for a way to reclaim what would otherwise be a waste product. He was able to acquire an industrial green bean cutter, which cut his carrots into two lengths, and by placing these lengths into a green bean cutter, he created the original baby carrot, branded "Bunny-Luv".

[AndyD.]

I agree about preferring minors to majors.  Most of my Bach mp3 collection is sorted with the minors first.

That's amazing, minors first. I'm impressed.

[karlhenning]

Baby cut carrots . . . minors . . . it's all tying in . . . .

[AndyD.]

Baby cut carrots . . . minors . . . it's all tying in . . . .

Prélude à une carotte bébé en si mineur

[snyprrr]

Baby cut carrots . . . minors . . . it's all tying in . . . .

Yessssss!!!!

(scrambles to find lost pages of Unified Field Theory)

[snyprrr]

But seriously guys,... does anyone have anything more exotic?

I was looking into hexachords and tetrachords, which, when I played them, sounded very much like anonymous Modern Music! And there was the "Ode to Napoleon" scale, which is vaguely Egyptian.

[karlhenning]

I do like the scale I devised here.

[jowcol]

That's amazing, minors first. I'm impressed.

Um... that makes me sound like a sexual predator....

[AndyD.]

Um... that makes me sound like a sexual predator....

Eeeewps. Didn't mean it that way. I find that kind of organization really different and interesting.

[DavidRoss]

I file my collection by a simple numerical formula, [D₁(NB/H)²]/D₂, where:

D₁=Date of publication
D₂=Date of performance
N=Number of Instruments
B=Number of Bars
H=Composer's height in inches

[jowcol]

I file my collection by a simple numerical formula, [D₁(NB/H)²]/D₂, where:

D₁=Date of publication
D₂=Date of performance
N=Number of Instruments
B=Number of Bars
H=Composer's height in inches

Grateful that you didn't include other dimensions into your scoring algorithm.

[DavidRoss]

Grateful that you didn't include other dimensions into your scoring algorithm.

Well, we wouldn't want to complicate it, would we?  How would I ever find, say, Ozawa's recording of Russo's Street Music?

[Superhorn]

    What I really like is a very good pay scale for work.

 
                                                                                   

[jowcol]

    What I really like is a very good pay scale for work.

 
                                                                                   

I'd like bathroom scales that diminish my presence somewhat.