Kartvelian scale: Difference between revisions

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-In Georgian, '''Sakartvelo''' is the name of Georgia.
+{{Wikipedia| Music of Georgia (country) #Scales and tuning system }}
+The '''Kartvelian (heptatonic) scale''' is a modern interpretation of the traditional scale of [[Music of Georgia|Georgian folk music]].
+Note that this is just one possible interpretation, there is no academic consensus on the underlying scale of Georgian vocal music.
-<youtube description="&quot;The empirical research of a Georgian sound scale&quot; by Z. Tsereteli and L. Veshapidze">TFncneafovI</youtube>
+The scale is an alternating pattern of [[4edf]] and [[3ed4/3]], joined together and closing at the octave.
-== See also ==
+The term ''Kartvelian scale'', referring to the family of [[Wikipedia:Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian languages]] (of which the [[wikipedia:Georgian language|Georgian language]] is the main representative), seems to have been coined by [[User:Moremajorthanmajor|Moremajorthanmajor]].
-* [[Wikipedia: Music of Georgia (country)]]
+Moremajorthanmajor has also generalized the Kartvelian scale into a whole family of scales, the [[Kartvelian scales]].
-{{todo|inline=1|comment=If we don't find a reference for the word "Kartvelian" we should better rename the page}}
+== Intervals ==
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Intervals
+!Degree
+!Cents
+|-
+|1
+|175.489
+|-
+|2
+|350.978
+|-
+|3
+|526.466
+|-
+|4
+|701.955
+|-
+|5
+|867.970
+|-
+|6
+|1033.985
+|-
+|7
+|1200.000
+|}
+== Videos ==
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFncneafovI&pp=ygULVEZuY25lYWZvdkk%3D The empirical research of a Georgian sound scale" by Z. Tsereteli and L. Veshapidze]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxD6NB8-CI Georgian chant tuning (Malkhaz Erkvanidze demonstrates)]
+[[Category:7-tone scales]]
+[[Category:Tempered scales]]
+[[Category:Pages with mostly numerical content]]
+[[Category:Georgian music]]
+[[Category:Kartvelian]]