(Lat.). Enigmatic scale. Term applied to arbitrary scale used by Verdi in his Ave Maria (1897), the first of his Quattro pezzi sacri. Scale, which sounds like whole‐tone scale, is C–D♭–E–F♯–G♯–A♯–B–C.
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(Lat.). Enigmatic scale. Term applied to arbitrary scale used by Verdi in his Ave Maria (1897), the first of his Quattro pezzi sacri. Scale, which sounds like whole‐tone scale, is C–D♭–E–F♯–G♯–A♯–B–C.
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