The E Flat Lydian mapped to the Cube-root-of-2 Scale. This marks the first "scale of the day" entry featuring an intervallic sequence that repeats every 400.00 cents (the Cube-root-of-2, a.k.a. the equal tempered "major third"). In this instance all the intervals of a typical E Flat Lydian Scale are reduced to just one third their normal cents-size as the entire scale is compressed into this cozy intervallic basis. This is the first "scale of the day" to make use of 1/6-tones (33.33 cents - or one third of a semitone) - which are the "semitone" of choice in 36-tone equal temperament.It should also be noted that any composition that makes "true" use of any of these "mapped to the" scales must treat the interval being mapped to as a harmonic equivalency in the same manner that "octaves" are regarded as duplicate pitch-classes in music that use scales that replicate at the 2/1 octave. In this case, any pair of pitches separated by exactly 400 cents should be regarded as harmonically redundant.
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