E minor w the byzantine sauce

E minor from 3 Byzantine Perspectives

root	degree	chords
c	3	em6
eb	2	e7, emΔ
b	4	emΔ9, edim

HOW TO GET THE BYZANTINE SCALE
major scale but instead b2 b6 = byzantine
take the harmonic minor but instead sharp the 4
this gives you the hungarian minor scale
A.K.A “the double harmonic minor scale.”

4th mode of byzantine = hungarian minor
5th mode of hungarian minor = byzantine scale
in c byzantine = F Hungarian minor
(it puts the fun in fhungarian)
in c the chord on the 1st degree is C Δ
the 5 chord G is a 7 flat 5 no d, an e though
more like an inversion of em6

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“so thats if you had 3 different byz-scales starting on c, eb, and b. running each scale over a basic em gives you those tensions”

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HUNGARIAN MINOR

Mode	Name of scale	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees
1	Double Harmonic Minor	1	2	♭3	♯4	5	♭6	7	8
2	Oriental	1	♭2	3	4	♭5	6	♭7	8
3	Ionian ♯2 ♯5	1	♯2	3	4	♯5	6	7	8
4	Locrian 3 7	1	♭2	3	4	♭5	♭6	7	8
5	Double harmonic major or Phrygian Dominant ♯7	1	♭2	3	4	5	♭6	7	8
6	Lydian ♯2 ♯6	1	♯2	3	♯4	5	♯6	7	8
7	Ultraphrygian or Phrygian ♭4 7	1	♭2	♭3	♭4	5	♭6	7	8

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BYZANTINE SCALE

Mode	Name of scale	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees	Degrees
1	BYZANTINE	1	♭2	3	4	5	♭6	7	8
2	Lydian ♯2 ♯6	1	♯2	3	♯4	5	♯6	7	8
3	Ultraphrygian	1	♭2	♭3	♭4	5	♭6	7	8
4	Hungarian/Gypsy minor	1	2	♭3	♯4	5	♭6	7	8
5	Oriental	1	♭2	3	4	♭5	6	♭7	8
6	Ionian ♯2 ♯5	1	♯2	3	4	♯5	6	7	8
7	Locrian 3 7	1	♭2	3	4	♭5	♭6	7	8