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In situations where it's more intuitive to think in terms of the dark generator instead of the bright generator, the format is instead '''xL ys |d''', where d corresponds to the mode's UDP (the d in u|d). An example of this can be seen in the classic pentatonic scale (2L 3s), where even though the bright generator corresponds to diatonic's perfect 4th (which is actually diatonic's dark generator), it's common to think of these modes in terms of diatonic's bright generator (even though it's the dark generator of 2L 3s). This is because the bright and dark generators "flip" between 2L 3s to 5L 2s. (In general, generators flip when a mos xL ys has a child of (x+y)L xs, but don't flip if the child is xL (x+y)s, and in general, looking at modes in terms of the dark generator reverses the order of modes compared with the bright generator.) | In situations where it's more intuitive to think in terms of the dark generator instead of the bright generator, the format is instead '''xL ys |d''', where d corresponds to the mode's UDP (the d in u|d). An example of this can be seen in the classic pentatonic scale (2L 3s), where even though the bright generator corresponds to diatonic's perfect 4th (which is actually diatonic's dark generator), it's common to think of these modes in terms of diatonic's bright generator (even though it's the dark generator of 2L 3s). This is because the bright and dark generators "flip" between 2L 3s to 5L 2s. (In general, generators flip when a mos xL ys has a child of (x+y)L xs, but don't flip if the child is xL (x+y)s, and in general, looking at modes in terms of the dark generator reverses the order of modes compared with the bright generator.) | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+Modes of pentic (2L | |+Modes of pentic (2L 3s) | ||
!Mode | !Mode | ||
!UDP | !UDP | ||
!TAMNAMS | !TAMNAMS name | ||
|- | |- | ||
|sLsLL | |sLsLL | ||
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=== Mode names based on | === Mode names based on mosnames and mosprefixes === | ||
If a more memorable name is desired but there are no assigned names, interim names can be made using the mos's mosprefix and adding "-nian" or "-ian" | If a more memorable name is desired but there are no assigned names, interim names can be made using the mos's mosprefix and adding "-nian" or "-ian", then enumerated based on descending order of modal brightness. This produces 1st mosprefixian for the brightest mode, 2nd mosprefixian for the 2nd-brightest mode, etc, similar to [[genchain mode numbering]]. If the mosprefix and mosname are identical (such as with pine and pine-) or nearly identical (such as with jaric and jara-), or the mos is an n-wood scale, then the mosname can be used directly without any prefixes, producing 1st mosname, 2nd mosname, etc. | ||
Note that these names can only be made if there is a TAMNAMS name for a mos. Excluding current proposals to extend TAMNAMS names beyond the 10-note limit, this means most mos mode names will typically be formatted as '''xL ys u|'''. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+Modes of | |+Modes of pine (7L 1s) | ||
!Mode | !Mode | ||
!UDP | !UDP | ||