Editing Phrygian dominant scale (section)

{{Short description|Fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale}}
[[File:Ahavah_Rabbah_He.png | thumb | right | alt=musical notation of the Phrygian dominant scale | Phrygian dominant scale (Ahavah Rabbah written)]]
In [[music]], the '''Phrygian dominant scale''' (or the '''Phrygian ♮3 scale''') is the actual fifth [[musical mode|mode]] of the [[harmonic minor scale]], the fifth being the [[dominant (music)|dominant]].<ref name="Hunter">Dave Hunter (2005). ''Play Acoustic'', San Francisco: Backbeat, p. 226. {{ISBN|978-0-87930-853-7}}.</ref> It is also called the '''harmonic dominant''', '''altered Phrygian scale''', '''dominant flat 2 flat 6''' (in jazz), or '''Freygish scale''' (also spelled Fraigish<ref name="W&F">Dick Weissman, Dan Fox (2009). ''A Guide to Non-Jazz Improvisation'', guitar edition, Pacific, Missouri: Mel Bay, p. 130. {{ISBN|978-0-7866-0751-8}}.</ref>). It resembles the [[Phrygian mode]] but with a [[major third]], rather than a [[minor third]]. The [[augmented second]] between its second and third scale degrees gives it an "Arabic" or Middle Eastern feeling to Western listeners.

In the [[Berklee method]], it is known as the [[Mixolydian mode|Mixolydian]] {{music|b}}9 {{music|b}}13 chord scale, a Mixolydian scale with a lowered 9th (2nd) and lowered 13th (6th), used in [[secondary dominant chord]] scales for V<sup>7</sup>/III and V<sup>7</sup>/VI.