Talk:Enigmatic scale
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Needed
[edit]Still need someone to write this out in musical notation on a staff. Also, I know Verdi uses the scale slightly differently when ascending and descending. Is this Verdi's customisation, or part of the definition of the scale? I don't know, so I didn't put it into the article. --RichardNeill 02:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Fixed itup a bit
[edit]Respelt the scale to be correct. Just remember guys, with heptatonic scales each scale degree will have its own letter. No heptatonic scale should have repeated leters. Also put in a formula. I will print screen the scale on a musical staff in a few minutes and try to upload it.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.175.42.172 (talk) 02:57, 7 July 2008 Also, the F# is a leading tone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.175.42.172 (talk) 02:58, 7 July 2008
Perfect fourths
[edit]Well, there are two perfect fourths in the scale: C# to F#, and F# to B. So... What gives? TheSOB (talk) 21:21, 1 October 2013 (UTC) Oh. I parsed that sentence wrong. Both the fourth and fifth were referring to the starting note... TheSOB (talk) 21:23, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
- There's a fourth in the descending version. Trumpetrep (talk) 04:19, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
Overhaul
[edit]I've overhauled the article to include sources for every statement. Most of the sources were already in the previous version of the article, but they were incomplete. In 2026, it is fairly easy to link to things directly, like scans of the original 1888 articles where the scale was first published and discussed. Richard Burke's Music Theory Online article was only partially cited without a title or a link to its extremely valuable contents.
Google was no help with the following:
Monte Pittman also employed the enigmatic scale on "Missing" from The Power Of Three (2014), as did Juan María Solare in his piano miniature "Ave Verdi" (2013). Russell Ferrante and Jimmy Haslip relied on the scale for "Enigma" from the Yellowjackets' 1989 album The Spin.
If anyone can find sources for this, I hope they'll add it back to the article.
I did not bother to rewrite the scale, since we already have 2 versions of it in the Commons. I think the svg files are better. But I also think it would be better to display them as multiple images. However, I can not get the align parameter to work. Posting the code here:
