h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One thing though, in the blues the scale used isn't precisely the same as the pentatonic scale, involving bent notes. I'm sure you knew this. Also a lot of blues-inflected pop music uses or implies a mixolydian scale. I'm sure you knew this too...

The whole tone scale isn't as new as you claim. While it wassn't used much in composition by anyone prior to Debussy, it was (as Bernard Shaw pointed out in his musical criticism at the time) familliar to anyone who lived near an organ maker , as it was used for tuning organs.
Sorry to sound nit-picky here...

I didn't claim it to be new- I said perhaps... But while it may have been used for tuning purposes, it wasn't widely used in actual music...
& the blues thing was a point from another researcher...