So has anyone here ever written anything using ONLY the Whole Tone Scale or Melodic Minor? No key changes or additional notes.

I did a Whole Tone piece about 7 years ago, but it (admittedly) sucked fairly hard.

i know Debussy uses the whole tone scale extensively..but im not too sure about the whole score.

im gonna get my copy of debussy's preludes out right now...

the second prelude is almost entirely whole tone


i have to say, i enjoyed debussy a good deal more before i learned what the whole tone scale was..


this is a pretty comprehensive list of scales : http://www.apassion4jazz.net/scales2.html

I did mean anyone here personally..

ok well, no i havent, and i dont plan to anytime soon

it might be interesting..i just don't know if it would be a motivation right now.

Yeah, I used to fiddle with all these old scales, but not really any more.

I might have a try with the melodic minor as that's a fairly odd one with quite specific rules. Sometimes it's good to see what you can do when you give yourself a limit. I suppose it exercises your composing arm.

hmmm, why are the melodic and harmonic minor scales 'old' and hardly used? I thought almost all western minor music was either melodic or harmonic??

I don't think Melodic minor is what you're thinking...

Melodic minor in the key of C is this...

On the way up C-D-Eb-F-G-A-B On the way down C-Bb-Ab-G-F-Eb-D

It was used for choir vocals in something like the 17th century (my music history is REALLY sketchy)

Yeah, that's the one... Isn't that used when writing minor melodies? I could be completely wrong... I probably am...