Editing Scale (music) (section)

===Scales, steps, and intervals===
[[File:C chromatic circle.svg|thumb|Diatonic scale in the [[chromatic circle]]]]
Scales are typically listed from low to high pitch. Most scales are ''[[octave]]-repeating'', meaning their pattern of notes is the same in every octave (the [[Bohlen–Pierce scale]] is one exception). An octave-repeating scale can be represented as a circular arrangement of pitch classes, ordered by increasing (or decreasing) pitch class. For instance, the increasing C major scale is C–D–E–F–G–A–B–[C], with the bracket indicating that the last note is an octave higher than the first note, and the decreasing C major scale is C–B–A–G–F–E–D–[C], with the bracket indicating an octave lower than the first note in the scale.

The distance between two successive notes in a scale is called a [[Degree (music)|scale step]].

The notes of a scale are numbered by their steps from the first degree of the scale. For example, in a C major scale the first note is C, the second D, the third E and so on. Two notes can also be numbered in relation to each other: C and E create an interval of a third (in this case a major third); D and F also create a third (in this case a minor third).