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I've been looking for the music scales used in medieval music as we know it today, however I cannot find any. I understand why medeival music is difficult to come by in the modern day, and that's a different subject all together, so I'm not going to touch that...

So does anybody out there know of any Medieval Musical scales? Or is simply the Major, Minor, Dorian, Lydian, Phrygian etc. scales that we use now days, used in a way differently from the modern uses. I've already created two melodies of my own, one with the Major scale and one with chords and arpeggios, so I'm thinking that it's nothing more than the very basic scales most people learn first-thing, used in a particular way different than we use today, however I'm not entirely sure due to the fact their music, other than the fact it's composed upon different instruments, such as the Lute or Mandolin, sounds very different, melodically, from our own and it appeals to me.

Any help, please?

In my opinion the best way to get a real renaissance-y sounding song is to use the melodic minor, or even the harmonic minor maybe.

Melodic minor is the exact same as the minor with a raised 6th and 7th (as if playing the major scale for those two notes) ascending and then just the standard minor scale while descending. Sounds complex but it's not when you're used to it. Listen to Bach's Bourrée in E minor (you'll recognise it from Led Zep live/Tenacious D).

Harmonic minor is basically the same except only the 7th is raised and its the same both ascending and descending. =)

lol thanks. I've got the technique down for the most part now, though. I appreciate it though...

I actually listened to Nightwish's song "Last of the Wilds" to get it down. I've made quite a few songs with what I learned...

Here's an easy one I made up using D Chord. I don't mind sharing it, it's not like I'm gonna' get famous for it, lol...

e|-0--3-2-0--------0--3-2-3--5--3-2-0--3--0--3-2-3---5--3-2-0-3--0-
B|-0-----------3-5-------------2----------2--0-----------2---------2--0-
G|-0----------------------------3----------3--0-----------3---------3--0-
D|-0----------------------------0----------0--0-----------0---------0--0-
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------

e|-3-2-3--------3-2-3-----3-2-0-3--5--0--3-2-3--5-3-2-0--3--0---
B|---------3-5----------3--5------2--2--0----------2---------2--0---
G|---------------------------------3--3--0----------3----------3--0---
D|---------------------------------0--0--0----------0----------0--0---
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------

I hope it doesn't get too messed up when I post it...

Edit: It did... too lazy to fix it... sorry for that lol

The thing I didn't realize at the time I made the original post was that the scales haven't changed in the least bit since they were originally created. The only difference is the applications