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Another interesting property is that it becomes possible to construct "super-linked" 5-limit chords. In Whitewood[14], or Blackwood[10], if one stacks alternating major and minor thirds on top of one another, one will eventually come back to the root without ever hitting a wall, and hence the pattern can continue forever. Since all of the diatonic modes can be thought of as a stacked chain of 7 alternating thirds, placed in inversion, this means that Whitewood[14] and Blackwood[10] also make for excellent "panmodal" scales, in which you can construct "modal" sounding sonorities in one key that will work in all keys. | Another interesting property is that it becomes possible to construct "super-linked" 5-limit chords. In Whitewood[14], or Blackwood[10], if one stacks alternating major and minor thirds on top of one another, one will eventually come back to the root without ever hitting a wall, and hence the pattern can continue forever. Since all of the diatonic modes can be thought of as a stacked chain of 7 alternating thirds, placed in inversion, this means that Whitewood[14] and Blackwood[10] also make for excellent "panmodal" scales, in which you can construct "modal" sounding sonorities in one key that will work in all keys. | ||
[[File:Whitewood14 21edo.mp3|14-note Whitewood scale (major, sLsLsLsLsLsLsL) in 21edo tuning]] | |||
14-note Whitewood scale (major, sLsLsLsLsLsLsL) in 21edo tuning | |||
== Tunings == | == Tunings == | ||