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Well, two _or_ one. The melodic (two) and harmonic (one) minor scales.

• acjohnson55 10y ago
  Sort of. They are separate scales, but if you compose (classical-style) music in a minor key, you don't typically pick one of those scales. The chords that appear might include any of those notes, even within individual phrases. In my totally non-expert observation, contemporary music often is more modal, in the sense that it probably would just pick one of those scales (particularly natural minor) and stick to it.