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Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, the major Neapolitan scale and the minor Neapolitan scale are two musical scale

Musical scale

In music, a scale is a sequence of musical notes in ascending and descending order. Most commonly, especially in the context of the common practice period, the notes of a scale will belong to a single key, thus providing material for or being used to conveniently represent part or all of a musical...

s, one minor, one major

Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.Major and minor are frequently referred to in the titles of classical compositions, especially in reference to the key of a piece.-Intervals and chords:With regard...

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The sequence of scale steps Neapolitan minor is as follows:
1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 7 8
A Bb C D E F G# A
[ h w w w h A h
C Db Eb F G Ab B C]

And for Neapolitan major:
1 b2 b3 4 5 6 7 8
A Bb C D E F# G# A
[ h w w w w w h
C Db Eb F G A B C]

Thus the scales are distinguished from the harmonic and ascending melodic minor scales by the flattened supertonic

Supertonic

In music or music theory, the supertonic is the second degree or note of a diatonic scale, one step above the tonic. In music theory, the supertonic chord is symbolized by the Roman numeral ii in a major scale, indicating that the chord is a minor chord , or ii in a natural minor scale, indicating...

 or second scale degree.

Both are accompanied well by power

Power chord

In music, a power chord is a chord consisting of only the root note of the chord and the fifth interval, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an amplification process that imparts distortion...

 or minor chord

Minor chord

In music theory, a minor chord is a chord having a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth.When a chord has these three notes alone, it is called a minor triad....

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Neapolitan minor may also be called or refer to the Hungarian Gypsy scale

Hungarian gypsy scale

The Hungarian Gypsy Scale is a name given by different authorities to two different scale forms. The more commonly used of these scales is the fourth mode of the Double harmonic scale , it can be found by sharpening the 4th degree of the harmonic minor scale to introduce an additional gap, or...

and Neapolitan major may also be called or Lydian major scale.