[LAU] ot-ish: musical scales question

[R. Mattes]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:39:53 +0100, James Morris wrote
> [...] 
> (Unless I'm mistaken) all the above scales can be transposed to work
> with any key.

Indeed.

> Now I'm not very musical, and found my way to wikipedia, 
> specifically this page:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_tone_scale
> 
> Which says "In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each 
> note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole 
> step. There are only two complementary whole tone scales, both six-
> note or hexatonic scales:    * {C, D, E, [UTF-8?]F♯, [UTF-8?]G♯,
[UTF-8?]A♯, C}    * 
> {B, [UTF-8?]Dâ™­, [UTF-8?]Eâ™­, F, G, A, B}. "
> 
> Which is confusing for me because it seems I can represent it in the 
> array as:
> 
>     { "Whole Tone",         { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 ,0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0 }},

 or:  { "Whole Tone as well"  { 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 }
 
> But goes on to say I it is impossible for any key other than "c" or
> "b" but the array representation seems to show it could work for any
> key.
> 
> Can anyone explain?

Well, you can have one on C od on D, any transposition will have the same
notes as either the C or the D version. 

 HTH Ralf Mattes
 
> Cheers,
> James.
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