Saturday, March 24, 2007

Scale of the Day: E Whole-Tone mapped to the Square-root-of-2

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The E Whole-Tone mapped to the Square-root-of-2 Scale... as one would find it on any conventionally tuned, equal tempered instrument. Which is an unusual quality for square-root-of-2 based scales. And it poses the additional challenge of treating the 600-cent "tritone" as a harmonic equivalent (in the same manner one treats the octave as harmonically redundant in tonal music) so it doesn't come off sounding like a typical 12-tone chromatic scale.

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