whats the difference between the Octatonic scale and the diminished scale??!?
Another pattern alternates tone and semitone intervals producing the Diminished Scale.
If the pattern is tone-semitone one gets the chord scale of a diminished seventh chord also known as the Octatonic Scale, much used by Stravinsky.
and on a similar topic, anyone know where i can find an mp3 of "Stravinsky's The FireBird" ??
No difference in that context.
C-D-Eb-F-Gb-Ab-A-B-C
is the diminished scale, or Stravinsky's octatonic.
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hmm..
can i be curious and ask why he didnt just call it the diminished scale?
Because the association of the scale with the diminished chord is a lot newer - Stravinsky named it octatonic (for having eight tones), and about 50 years later a guy named Arthur Berger said "hey, this fits with a diminished chord - it's a diminished scale!"
Neither one invented the scale, of course. It's been used in Arabic music for more than a millenia.
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