If the interval of the augmented second is used, many other scales become possible.

It is also defined as an eleven note scale containing two augmented seconds.

It may be seen that the scale contains two augmented seconds, one in each tetrachord.

Augmented seconds occur in many scales, most important the harmonic minor and its various modes.

A supermajor second is intermediate to a major second and an augmented second.

The melodies, with their augmented seconds and bouncing rhythmic underpinning, speak of southern Italy.

In harmonic minor scales, the augmented second occurs between the sixth and seventh scale degrees.

I've put major second, minor second, diminished second, augmented second.

These augmented seconds, though sufficiently consonant by themselves, will sound "exotic" or atypical when played together with a perfect fifth.

In the diatonic system, every interval has one or more enharmonic equivalents, such as augmented second for minor third.

Its inversion is the augmented second.

While it evolved primarily as a basis for chords, the harmonic minor with its augmented second is sometimes used melodically.

Out of different styles the Middle Eastern monophony with augmented seconds, sensual melodies and instrumental accompaniment were particularly popular.

They especially eschewed the interval of the augmented second, part of the "gypsy minor" scale used typically in klezmer music.

In classical music from Western culture, an augmented second is an interval produced by widening a major second by a chromatic semitone.

The Persian scale is characterized by the liberal use of half steps (4), augmented seconds (2), and frequent use of chromaticism.

The second theme (Moderato), in the violins, is interesting in its melodic structure, which uses the gypsy scale (with two augmented seconds).

It is referred to as the "double harmonic" scale because it contains two harmonic tetrads featuring augmented seconds.

Diminished, minor and augmented seconds are notated on adjacent staff positions as well, but consist of a different number of semitones (zero, one, and three).

He may have been talking of the augmented second in quarter-comma meantone, a tuning he favored, which is close to the just septimal minor third of 7/6.

The more commonly used of these scales can be found by sharpening the 4th degree of the harmonic minor scale to introduce an additional gap, or augmented second.

Here, finally, are some augmented seconds (think "na-gi" in "Hava Nagila"), but they sound generically "Oriental," not specifically Jewish.

The structure of a chromatic scale is therefore uniform throughout, unlike major and minor scales which have tones and semitones in particular arrangements (and an augmented second, in the harmonic minor).

The notes of the harmonic minor scale are the same as the natural minor except that the seventh degree is raised by one semitone, making an augmented second between the sixth and seventh degrees.

Musically, Ahavah Rabbah is considered to be the most Jewish sounding of all the prayer modes, because of the interval of an augmented second, contained between its second and third scale degrees.