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List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
Set 3-1 has three possible versions: [0 1 1 1 2 T], [0 1 1 T E 1], and [0 T T 1 E 1], where the subscripts indicate adjacency intervals.The normal form is the smallest "slice of pie" (shaded) or most compact form, in this case: [0 1 1 1 2 T].
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations [ 2 ] and are still used in various musical styles to this day.
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For example, the left-handed involute of the standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E is the "lefty" tuning E–B–G–D–A–E. Similarly, the "left-handed" involute of the "lefty" tuning is the standard ("righty") tuning. [21] The reordering of open-strings in left-handed tunings has an important consequence.
A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...
The ritsu scales do not fit exactly into the equal temperament prominent in Western classical music but ritsu is transposable to E and B, Ryo is transposable to D and G, and Hanryo hanritsu to A. [7] The Ritsu scale is one of the six scales (along with the major and minor scales, the common pentatonic scale, and the common "blues" scale) that ...
Tone clusters...on the piano [are] whole scales of tones used as chords, or at least three contiguous tones along a scale being used as a chord. And, at times, if these chords exceed the number of tones that you have fingers on your hand, it may be necessary to play these either with the flat of the hand or sometimes with the full forearm.