Nicolas Slonimsky, “Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns”, 1947 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Arthur C. Edwards, “Practical Lessons in Melody-Writing”, 1963, PART FOUR (4). 
INTRODUCTION.
The ABOVE list of “Scale Names with Intervals” is the basis of melody-writing. The list is thirty-five (35) scales.
Number one (1) is “chromatic scale“ which all twelve (12) notes of an octave (C-to-c).
Number two (2) is “Ionian-Major scale” only the eight (8) white-keyboard note of an octave (CDEFGABc).
Number three (3) to number (8) are “Major scale” MODES (octave on white-keys: starting at different “tonic” not #3. DEFGABCd, #4. EFGABCDe, #5. FGABCDEf, #6. GABCDEFg, #7. ABCDEFGa, #8. BCDEFGAb.
COMMENTS.
Nicolas Slonimsky, “Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns”, 1947 is thesaurus of melodic-scales. After you try the thirty-five (35) scales ABOVE you can use the Nicolas Slonimsky book to get to more melodic-scales than you could imagine. Arthur C. Edwards, “Practical Lessons in Melody-Writing”, 1963 is a book I recommend. You will progress to the level of using all the melodic-scales in the Nicolas Slonimsky book.
