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| | gamma - Greek letter, Wendy Carlos musical scale, Erv Wilson music notation symbol |
 | | Paul Hahn (Yahoo tuning group message 1873, Fri Mar 19, 1999 1:59 pm) has pointed out that the number of steps per octave is very nearly the sum of the numbers of steps per octave in Carlos's alpha and beta scales. |
 | | Used in its lower-case form γ as an additional letter-name used in Erv Wilson's notations, signifying a note near "G", but with a musical function which is separate from "G", in whatever particular scale the notation is describing. |
 | | During medieval times (c.900 AD), the ancient Greek tetrachord system was adapted to the needs of the "Gregorian" plainchant used in church services by the Franks, by reorganizing the intervallic structure of the tetrachords as if they ocurred a tone lower. |
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