The Dorian 2 scale, also known as Phrygian 6, or the Cappadocian Scale is the second mode of the jazz minor scale (or the ascending

melodic minor scale In music theory, the minor scale is three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just two as with the major scale, which als ...

). It is on the second degree of the jazz minor scale. Without the

minor second A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between two adjacent no ...

above the root, the scale would just be the

Dorian mode Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different but interrelated subjects: one of the Ancient Greek ''harmoniai'' (characteristic melodic behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it); one of the medieval musical modes; or—mo ...

. The reason it is also known as Phrygian 6 is because if the scale did not have the major 6th then it would be enharmonic with the

Phrygian mode The Phrygian mode (pronounced ) can refer to three different musical modes: the ancient Greek ''tonos'' or ''harmonia,'' sometimes called Phrygian, formed on a particular set of octave species or scales; the Medieval Phrygian mode, and the modern ...

. This scale is commonly used in Assyrian music, most especially in the folk dance genre. Though to add

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and to retain the Phrygian tradition of Assyrian music, the major sixth may at times be simultaneously altered to the

minor sixth In Western classical music, a minor sixth is a musical interval encompassing six staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and is one of two commonly occurring sixths (the other one being the major sixth). It is qualified as '' ...

during the course of the composition. Rimmer, Joan, ''Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia in the British Museum'', London 1969, p. 39.f.pl.21, 17, 18, 199

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