Where do Zeitler's scale names come from?

1. How are musical scales named?
2. Where do scale mode names come from?
3. How is a major scale names?
4. Why are there different music scales?

How are musical scales named?

Each note of a major scale is also named with scale-degree names . The first note of a major scale is called the tonic; the second note, the supertonic, followed by the mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, and leading tone.

Where do scale mode names come from?

These names are derived from an Ancient Greek subgroup (Dorians), a small region in central Greece (Locris), and certain neighboring peoples (non-Greek but related to them) from Asia Minor (Lydia, Phrygia).

How is a major scale names?

The scale degrees are:

• 1st: Tonic.
• 2nd: Supertonic.
• 3rd: Mediant.
• 4th: Subdominant.
• 5th: Dominant.
• 6th: Submediant.
• 7th: Leading tone.
• 8th: Tonic.

Why are there different music scales?

This is usually the first scale we learn, but there are different types of scale, each with their own individual sound, some containing different numbers of notes. They sound so different due to the variations in patterns of intervals between notes in each scale.