Monday, December 08, 2008

Scale of the Day: E Flat Pythagorean Mixolydian diminished 4 mapped to the Square-root-of-2

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The E Flat Pythagorean Mixolydian diminished 4 mapped to the Square-root-of-2 Scale. This scale features the half-sized version of the Pythagorean Comma (531441/524288, or 23.46-cents. In Square-root-of-2 space it becomes 11.73-cents) between the major third and diminished fourth. This creates the oddity of a fourth degree that is physically lower than the third degree in an ascending scale.

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