Major Scale in Music

Scales are the fundamental part of any Music. A scale in music can be defined as array of musical notes separated by certain interval which can be in ascending and descending order. Scale then represent either a portion or whole of a musical work. Scales also represent the melody or harmony of a musical piece. The intervals between the notes determine the type of musical scale. In a major scale the interval beginning from the initial note is whole tone, whole tone, half tone, whole tone, whole tone, whole tone and finally half tone. This illustration can be further elaborated with a particular instance of C major scale. In C major scale the notes are arranged in order, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. What we have to understand here is the musical interval between first and second notes, i.e, C and D is whole tone. Similarly the interval between D and E is whole tone, between E and F is half tone, between F and G is whole tone, between G and A is whole tone, between A and B is whole tone and finally Between B and C is half tone. By using this sequence of interval we can construct a major scale starting from any note. The starting note is generally termed as root note. If we take G as a root note then G major scale, as we call it has notes, G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G.