music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

, the Lydian augmented scale (Lydian 5 scale) is the third mode of the

ascending melodic minor scale The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used. As the name implies, it is primarily used in jazz, although it may be found in other types of m ...

. Starting on C, the notes would be as follows: : Generically the whole and half steps are: - W - W - W - W - H - W - H - The scale may be thought of as a major scale with an

augmented fourth Augment or augmentation may refer to: Language *Augment (Indo-European), a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages * Augment (Bantu languages), a morpheme that is prefixed to the noun class prefix of nouns ...

and fifth, or as the relative to the

melodic minor In Classical_music, Western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three Scale (music), scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending). ...

ascending scale (C Lydian augmented and A melodic minor ascending share the same notes).

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