How can I learn to love someone new?" Difficult to imagine a more threadbare sentiment, but the spare arrangement was striking — a slow rise that her left hand took through the E-flat-major scale, note by note, until Spektor's voice rose into mezzo-soprano range and released a torrent of feeling.
During the corresponding improvisation condition (referred to as ScaleImprov), subjects improvised a melody, but were restricted to the use of C major scale quarter notes within the same octave.
When studying your scales, be sure to recognize the root notes of the scales (on a C major scale, this note would be C).
So if 'do' (C in C major scale) is note number one, it does not quite mean that intonation no. 1 is that 'do' note.
In Scale's control condition (referred to hereafter as ScaleCtrl), subjects repeatedly played a one-octave C major scale in quarter notes.
During the control task (Scale-Ctrl), subjects were instructed to play repeatedly an ascending and descending one-octave C major scale in quarter notes only, with the right hand only (Fig. 1, upper left).
The brass bells range from 515 pounds to 2,677 pounds and trace a D major scale and four additional notes above.
The training matrix is also 12 by 12 and both the row and column indices represent the 12-note major scale starting from C3.
As long as you can play a complete C major scale from one G note to the G an octave above it, you can play the tune.
Metzger isolates it as: "A sequence of notes that alternates between the fifth and third notes of a major scale, typically starting on the fifth.
The opening Praeludium, a graciously ornamented theme, which, as Mr. Hochman explained, simply embellishes the rising notes of the major scale, emerged in a calm, unforced pace.
