Mudlark, the Enigmatic Scale is C-Db-E-F#-G#A#-B-C--

The names of the "Greek modes" come to us by way of Boethius, who wrote in the fifth and sixth centuries, and who said that they were named for the cities where they originated. However, the modal system was actually medieval and isn't the same as the system that the ancient Greeks used(and that he decscribed).

All talk about the "Greek Modes" tends to get confused really quickly because the terms are used in four different areas of music, and for very different reasons-

First: As a set of rules for Medeval Church Choral music

Second: To decribed a the use of some of those elements in classical composed music from the 19th century on

Third: As devices for describing scales found in folk music

Fourth: As material for progressive jazz improvisation--


It is worth noting that there are many, many scales that have been used in one place or another, and many, many, more that are theoretically possible-- Arabic classical music formally decribes something like 160 scales--and, when you take into account the use of untempered scales(scales where the half steps and whole steps are irregular), there may be even more than that used in Anglo-American music--

MTed