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	Heptatonic scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, a heptatonic scale is any scale with seven (hepta) degrees.
		In Western music, the most important examples are the diatonic scales, which include the major and 'natural minor' scales, the harmonic minor scale and the melodic minor.
		Other heptatonic scales can be found in other forms of music, such as Hindustani classical music, although use of the term "scale" outside the field of Western functional harmony is controversial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heptatonic (106 words)

	Musical scale: musical scale note, musical scale chart, hebrew musical note scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scales are typically ordered in pitch, with their ordering providing a measure of musical distance.
		Scales are often abstracted from performance or composition, though they are often used precompositionally to guide or limit a composition.
		Microtonal scales are also used in traditional Indian Raga music, which has a variety of modes which are used not only as modes or scales but also as defining elements of the song, or raga.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Musical_scale (1411 words)

	The Song of Songs Revealed -- Glossary
		The one-octave major scale (C to C) is sometimes called "the diatonic scale"; in all, there are seven diatonic modes that may be derived from the diatonic scale.
		(scale or mode): In the sense we use it here, based on a series of intervals which may be smaller or larger than the steps, half steps, etc., found in diatonic and diatonic-chromatic scales and modes.
		Enharmonic scales and modes are commonly derived from diatonic and diatonic-chromatic scales and modes.
	www.rakkav.com /song/pages/glossary.htm (841 words)

	Heptatonic scale: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In music theory, a diatonic scale is a scale whose notes are built on the natural staff positions of lines and spaces, with no accidentals, with or without...
		In music theory, the major scale (or major mode) is one of the diatonic scales....
		A minor scale in musical theory is a diatonic scale whose third scale degree is an interval of a minor third above the tonic....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/heptatonic_scale.htm (186 words)

	What is music scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In music, a scale is an ascending or descending series of notes or pitches, as opposed to a series of intervals, which is a musical mode.
		Scales are theoretical constructs which may be used to control a composition, but much music is written without any scale in mind.
		Scales may be described as tonal, modal, diatonic, derived or synthetic, and by the number of tones included.
	www.ababasoft.com /music/teory03.html (1863 words)

	KCS Downloadables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This heptatonic scale is based on ratios of small whole numbers and is mapped to the white notes of the keyboard within the range C2-C7; like the Pelog temperament, the scale starts on E and all fl notes will be erased from the track.
		They are calculated by considering a scale's ability to aproximate the primary interval ratios 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 6:5, 5:3 and 8:5 as a function of the number of steps per octave.
		This is a pentatonic scale used in Bali and Java and is a close approximation of 5-tone equal temperament.
	www.cdss.fsnet.co.uk /temper/frames/kcsdownload.htm (1577 words)

	EOL 8: The Birth of a New Mode - Introduction (Dujunco) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Chaozhou music, scale, pitch ornamentation, pitch temperament, intervallic pattern and the recurrence of characteristic melodic motifs are the important parameters for distinguishing one modal variant of a given tune from another.
		Three kinds of seven-tone scales and one six-tone scale have come to be established, serving as the basis of particular diaoti from which others have presumably been generated.
		A hybrid heptatonic scale resulting from the combination of the characteristics of the two preceding modal scales is the L3H6 modal scale.
	research.umbc.edu /efhm/8/dujunco/dujunco1.html (830 words)

	The Musical Scale
		For the equal tempered scale the frequencies are the same for all keys.
		By the 17th century the equally tempered scale was being adopted.
		Most Chinese music is based on the five-tone, or pentatonic, scale, but the seven-tone, or heptatonic, scale, is also used, often as an expansion of a basically pentatonic core.
	www.silcom.com /~aludwig/The_musical_scale.htm (953 words)

	New Trail Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Still, it is certain that heptatonic scales did not originate in Europe, and that extensive cross-cultural influences have occurred.
		There are several ways to argue for the psychoacoustic logic of a heptatonic scale; here is one: As several ancient civilizations discovered, integral divisions of a string or pipe produce pure-sounding intervals above the fundamental: first the octave (division by two), then the 12th (division by three).
		While not all heptatonic scales are constructed from this "circle of fifths", usually the fundamental is accompanied by at least the fifth above and below it; filling in the two gaps with more than two tones may likewise be too "chromatic".
	www.ualberta.ca /ALUMNI/newtrail/00-1/ask00-1.html (498 words)

	A Tribute to Hinduism - Hindu Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The scale as it exists today has great possibilities for musical formations, and it has a very extensive range included in the microtonal variations.
		The two earliest Greek scales, the Mixolydic and the Doric, have an affinity to early Indian scales.
		The expression of a raga is thus determined by its scale.
	www.atributetohinduism.com /Hindu_Music.htm (11195 words)

	Chapter07
		Binet had developed a scale where specific tasks were directly correlated to different levels of abilities or a mental age.
		The major and minor scales of Western art music are the most commonly known heptatonic scales, but different forms of seven-tone scales exist.
		Heptatonic scales can also be found in the music of fl Africa and of some American Indians.
	fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us /~fgati/chapter07.html (2173 words)

	Chinese Music - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Most Chinese music is based on five-tone, or pentatonic, scales, but the seven-tone, or heptatonic, scale, is also used, often as an expansion of a basically pentatonic core.
		Pentatonic scales were much used in older music.
		The heptatonic scale is often encountered in northern Chinese folk music.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761558966__1/Chinese_Music.html (1058 words)

	Explanation of Musical Modes
		Major and "natural" minor scales are two of a special (but common) kind of heptatonic scale known as diatonic.
		Fewer than 5 notes per octave don't tend to feel like a full scale, and going beyond 9 notes is not usually a good idea because it tends to be confusing to the listener.
		It's in a mode of a scale that uses 3 half-step intervals, causing one interval to be an augmented second.
	www.elvenminstrel.com /tolkien/modes.htm (515 words)

	Lao music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some ethnomusicologists believe that Laos is a country where the ancient art music of the Khmer people has been best preserved -- as well as diverse forms of folk music related to the oldest types of Indian music, music that has largely disappeared in India itself.
		They claim to find in Laos a scale which the ancient Hindus called the "celestial scale," the Gandhara grama, which is a tempered heptatonic scale, or a division of the octave into seven equal parts.
		The Royal Lao Orchestra, consisting of musicians of the former court of the king of Laos, who fled Laos following the communist takeover in 1975, now reside in Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lao_music (498 words)

	Chinese Traditional Music - Pitches, Scales and Modes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This produced scales theoretically more complex than the Pythagorean: Zarlino's diatonic scales had a semitone and two sizes of tone and chromatic scales had three sizes of semitone, whereas Pythagorean workings produced only one size each of tone and semitone in diatonic scales and two sizes of semitone in chromatic ones.
		The scales are the gu (also called ya), xin (also called qing or xia zhi) and qingshang (also called yan or su yue), all of which are based on the pentatonic scale.
		The pentatonic scales could be played with any of their notes as the final (Footnote 7).
	www.cechinatrans.demon.co.uk /ctm-psm.html (2921 words)

	The Rules of Musics
		In many ways, the pentatonic scale may be seen as a perfect scale, a foundational scale, and a natural scale.
		This writer deems these scales as the scales of comfort, rest, peace, agreement, and devoid of the stresses and tension of the swollen scales.
		In review of several pentatonic tunes by Bronson, the 6th degree of the scale (or “la” in fixed do system) was a commonly accented note in melodic phrases on the level with 1, 4, or 5 of the key (Bronson 1969).
	www.dalhousielodge.org /Thesis/MUSICrules.htm (1493 words)

	Musical Scales
		The major scale is then tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone, and this sequence of intervals defines the scale.
		We see that a musical scale is a collection of pitches, arranged in a monotonic sequence of frequency, that are usually harmonic and pleasant when sounded sequentially or simultaneously in the performance of music.
		Musical scales in general, however, do not depend on harmony, which is a late development, though current musical theory is dominated by it.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/waves/music.htm (3985 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Pentatonics & Melodic Permutations (Theory Article)
		We can make modal pentatonics over each one of the modes of any heptatonic scale using the minor pentatonic's grades (1,3,4,5,7,) and major pentatonic's grades (1,2,3,5,6) and fixing this grades adding bemols or sustaineds depending on the needing of the mode that we would convert in pentatonic.
		I once looked at the "pentatonic" scale concept...and it said...scale cointaining 5 different tones...It's too bad that most people tend to use the standard, 1 b3 4 5 b7 pentatonic and its major form 1 2 3 5 6...but as the definition says...5 notes...why can't we take a group of five notes...
		There are many pentatonic scales out there, Eastern music has some clever and nice examples...just take the scale that Marty Friedman uses a lot in his playing...1 2 b3 5 6b...pretty japanese sounding...he also has this peculiar one...1 2 b3 5 6....
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6888 (1587 words)

	bala
		On the basis of her study of Mandinka (the Mandinka are the western-most branch of the Mande family) balafons in The Gambia, (Mandinka Balafon, p.
		To give the reader an idea of what this entails, it useful to compare equidistant heptatonic tuning to Western major or minor scales, which also have seven tones but, as we will see, the intervals or distances between the tones are different.
		Jessup's "equidistant heptatonic" tuning is an ideal mathematical model that does not necessarily correspond to how actual balas are tuned.
	tcd.freehosting.net /djembemande/bala.html (1950 words)

	Tuning-Math Archive Section 9: 8325 - 8349
		Observe that there is a collision in a harmonic minor scale between the augmented 2nd (a dissonance between the 6th and 7th scale degrees) and the minor 3rds in the scale (which are consonant), but I wouldn't say that this results in any disorientation.
		I think that we would hear it as heptatonic (due in no small part to the fact that we are so heptatonic-oriented, but on the other hand, I don't know how someone coming from a culture that uses only a pentatonic scale would interpret it).
		In the context of a diatonic scale the tones are all assumed to be in a chain of fifths.
	robertinventor.com /tuning-math/s___9/msg_8325-8349.html (7619 words)

	Math and Music, Microtonal Music Theory, Just Intonation
		Composers, theorists, and instrumentalists have completely ignored the fundamental relationship between math and music, and instead have focused on the rote learning of unchangable symbolic rules and musical scales.
		Microtonal and just intonation composers and theorists have recently been working to re-establish the connection between math and music through the development of microtonal music theory.
		New musical scales and tuning-systems based on the expanded resources of musical pioneers such as Partch, Fokker, and Wilson.
	tonalsoft.com /enc/encyclopedia.aspx (524 words)

	Tuning-Math Archive Section 9: 8375 - 8399
		The 6th and 7th members of a harmonic minor scale could be given ratios of 8/5 and 15/8 (as 3rds of the subdominant and dominant triads), so the interval between these tones would be 64:75.
		>> In the context of a diatonic scale the tones are all assumed to be in >> a chain of fifths.
		In a C major scale the diminished 5th B-F has the upper note of the interval -6 positions in the chain of 5ths, relative to the lower note.
	robertinventor.com /tuning-math/s___9/msg_8375-8399.html (6083 words)

	Maqam: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first note of the upper jins is the dominant (dominant: (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale) note in the maqam.
		This makam is identical to the Western C-major scale, and consists of a Çârgâh pentachord and a Çârgâh tetrachord starting on the note Gerdaniye (G).
		Interestingly, insofar as C-major is considered the most basic scale of Western music and accordingly used very often, the Çârgâh makam is very little used in Turkish music (Turkish music: turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the mediterranean sea, and is a crossroads of cultures...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/maqam (2061 words)

	Note on North Indian Classical Music
		Ragas are defined by the notes used in the scale, but some ragas use the same notes yet are recognized as different, so scale alone is not the only feature that separates them.
		In the 20th century, some of the important factors which define ragas are Thaat or mode, Jati or scale permutation, Prahar or time of day, and Gharana or the musical tradition in which any musician may have been trained.
		According to this theory, a raga may have 5, 6, or 7 notes in ascent and 5,6, or 7 notes in descent.
	camitava.0catch.com /thaats.htm (523 words)

	TABLAbase: Vocabulary & glossary of terminology
		Gamak A tonal embellishment, a grace note, a note with a hint of the preceding or succeeding note.
		Oudhav Scale of the raga with five notes.
		2) scale must consist of a determined type, either 'mela' or 'that'.
	www.tabla.com /tablavoc.html#gharana (2023 words)

	Modes of the first eight 7-note chord-mode classes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, this could be done for the majority of 7-note chord-mode classes (forcing the enharmony to the extreme) but, except for some cases, only with the first eight chord-mode classes can this be done without adversely affecting the harmonic significance of the notes.
		The fact that the first eight chord-mode classes (and their modes and transpositions), could be written as major diatonic scale chromaticisms is very useful because there is no need to put notes to show the chord-mode classes modes, it is enough to indicate the key signature on the stave.
		To know a mode, it is enough to form an heptatonic scale, starting by C and put the accidentals indicated on the key signature.
	www.webcom.com /musics/appendix2.htm (810 words)

	AACM - North Indian Classical Music
		Rags are defined by the notes used in the scale, but some rags use the same notes yet are recognized as different, so scale alone is not the only feature that separates them.
		In the 20th century, some of the important factors which define rags are That, or mode, Jati, or scale permutation, Prahar, or time of day, and Gharana, or the musical tradition in which any musician may have been trained.
		According to this theory, a rag may have 5, 6, or 7 notes in ascent and 5,6, or 7 notes in descent.
	www.aacm.org /aacm/music.html (899 words)

	Central Javanese Gamelan
		There are two scales in Javanese gamelan music, "slendro" (pentatonic) and "pelog" (heptatonic-pentatonic).
		A complete gamelan consists of a pair of sets, one tuned in each of the scales and intended to be played together in many instances.
		There are also distinct melodic modes ("pathet") within the division of scale, three for each of the scales.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/java.html (2204 words)

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