Editing Major scale (section)

==Broader sense==
The term "major scale" is also used in the names of some other scales whose first, third, and fifth degrees form a [[major triad]].

The [[harmonic major scale]]<ref>{{cite book |first = Nikolai |last = Rimsky-Korsakov |title = Practical Manual of Harmony |publisher = Carl Fischer, LLC |year = 2005 |isbn = 978-0-8258-5699-0 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first = Dmitri |last = Tymoczko |year = 2011 |title = A Geometry of Music |location = New York |publisher = Oxford |chapter = Chapter 4 }}</ref> has a minor sixth. It differs from the [[harmonic minor scale]] only by raising the third degree.

{{block indent|<score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' { 
  \clef treble \time 7/4
  c4^\markup { Harmonic major scale }  d e f g aes b c
} }
</score>}}

The melodic major scale is the combined scale that goes as Ionian ascending and as [[Aeolian dominant scale|Aeolian dominant]] descending. It differs from [[melodic minor scale]] only by raising the third degree to a major third.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicstudents.com/archive01/093.html |title=Musicstudents.com - Free Sheet Music and Play-Along Soundfiles |access-date=2014-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311205933/http://www.musicstudents.com/archive01/093.html |archive-date=2014-03-11 }}</ref>
{{block indent|<score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' { 
  \clef treble \time 7/4
  c4^\markup { Melodic major (ascending and descending) }  d e f g a b  c bes aes g f e d c
} }
</score>}}

The [[double harmonic major scale]]<ref>{{cite book |last = Stetina |first = Troy |year = 1999 |title = The Ultimate Scale Book |page = 59 |isbn = 0-7935-9788-9 }}</ref> has a minor second and a minor sixth. It is the fifth mode of the [[Hungarian minor scale]].

{{block indent|<score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' { 
  \clef treble \time 7/4
  c4^\markup { Double harmonic major scale }  des e f g aes b c
} }
</score>}}