5 Jul
2010
5 Jul
'10
1:07 p.m.
R. Mattes wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:39:53 +0100, James Morris wrote
> 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:
This is correct. In the usual ET scale contruction we have three normal
symmetrical scales (aka modes of limited transposition) :
Chromatic scale: 1/2 step equidistant
Whole-tone scale: 1 step
Diminished scale: 1 1/2 steps
See Persichetti on the utility on symmetrical scales and Messiaen on
modes of limited transposition.
Btw, to the OP: You might save yourself some work simply by
incorporating Scala support.
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
Best,
dp