5 Jul
2010
5 Jul
'10
11:48 a.m.
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?]Fâ¯, [UTF-8?]Gâ¯,
[UTF-8?]Aâ¯,
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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