books.google.co.in - In 1879, French amateur composer Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901) painstakingly figured out a new way to create melodies and harmonies using a scale that alternated half and whole steps. This scale-known today as octatonic-was an important element in the music of Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov, and would later...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_Search_of_New_Scales.html?id=jYBSZZdmpt8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIn Search of New Scales
