The Big Loop

• Scale disambiguation
  • Major: MAJ
  • Melodic Minor: JAZ
  • Neapolitan Major: NEA
  • Neapolitan Minor: NEM
  • Harmonic Minor: HAR
  • Harmonic Major: HRM
  • Hungarian: HUN
  • Bizantine: BIZ
  • Enigmatic: NGM
  • Whote Tone: WTN
• All caps is a major quality; all lowercase is a minor quality
• Green are the Tonics (first mode) of each scale
• All outside modes (ie not enclosed) are of major quality.
• The blue background are loops, the one that is uncut in the diagram and the one that is cut due to 2-D limitations.

MAPPING NOTES TO THE BIG LOOP

Major Jump (P5/p4) Big Loop: “super diatonic”

Minor Jump (Tt/Tt) Big Loop