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Title: Incomplete..... Cast off your outdated beliefs
Review: After reading carefully, I found an overlap (No.20 & No.393) and a missing "symmetrical" scale, 1 b3 3 4 b5 6 b7 7 (= Messiaen's M.T.L.4)..... check No.1142-1190 of the pentatonic scales section...... sketchy information.In fact, the "Master Chords" section (unnumbered p.244) is even worse...... it's just a series of dominant chords 1-3-b7 in uncommon terms..... Tritone, Diatone (Maj 3rd), Sesquitone (Minor 3rd) apart.Slonimsky's Thesaurus had become anachronism and I found it's very incomplete. The book is old ...... published in 1947...... and soon people will not want to buy it anymore.Replace the outdated Slonimsky's Thesaurus with Dr. Lateef's "Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns" and Yamaguchi's "The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales."
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