User:Eufalesio/Good scales: Difference between revisions

Here's a data dump of scales I use. Some of them with funny names because they are in conlangs. I will provide the scales and all their modes, apart from other properties. Note however that for chiral scales I am NOT pairing them up. The first mode of a scale is one that I deem the most useful to me. This is why chiral scales are all messed up in order.   

Right next to the name, you will see the following descriptors on each scale:   

* MVn: [[Maximum variety]], often 4 or more.

* CS: [[Constant structure]]. All my scales are CS, coincidentally.

One pattern you'll see in all my scale prime modes is that they '''always''' have 3/2, and extremely frequently, 9/8 too. This is one hill I will die on, the perfect fifth 3/2 is obligatory! I need not have 4/3 (and in many cases I use other types of fourths such as 21/16, 27/20, 65/48, 11/8).

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Any scale of this form for any cent value 0 < C <  4/3. I declare to be a Skirmish. RH Skirmish have sqrt(4/3) < C < 4/3, and LH 1 < C < sqrt(4/3). This also means that the above scales, Nicepent, Pyth pentic modes, and semiquartal scales are Skirmishes, though... the term is better for C ≈ 13/12, you know, "minor second-ish" intervals.  

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The reason to use this mode and no others is that it provides an easy set of dodecatonic nominals to alter outwards from, also the numerically simplest mode of p-chromatic. Despite how bad it may seem to have a spine that is not symmetric across the octave, working with a MOS is wayyy better than whatever amalgamation I'd end up with were I to have √2 stuck in the middle.

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!256/243

!'''9/8'''

!32/27

!81/64

!'''4/3'''

!729/512

!'''3/2'''

!128/81

!27/16

!16/9

!'''15/8'''

!2

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=== Nelaá - Jälg [MV4, CS, SP] ===

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This is still the base scale of what I call the "fudge workflow", when you want and can do JI stuff but you must play within the limitations of 12 keys per octave. I found that moving the fundamental of the scale along 48edo is good enough. Why move the fundamental of the scale along 48edo? Because that way you have the harmonic scale along all 48edo notes, which includes the 12edo chain of fifths, 25c steps close to 81/80 and 64/63, and 50c steps close to 33/32 and 1053/1024.  

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