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}}A '''moment-of-symmetry scale''' (also called '''moment-of-symmetry''', commonly abbreviated as '''MOS scale''', or '''MOS''', pronounced "em-oh-ess"; also spelled as '''mos''' or '''MOSS''', pronounced "moss"; plural '''MOS scales''', '''MOSes''', or '''mosses''') is a type of [[binary]], [[Periods and generators|periodic scale constructed using a generator]]. The concept of moment-of-symmetry scales were originally invented by [[Erv Wilson]].
}}A '''moment-of-symmetry scale''' (originally called '''moment of symmetry'''; commonly abbreviated as '''MOS scale''' or '''MOS''', pronounced "em-oh-ess"; also spelled as '''mos''' or '''MOSS''', pronounced "moss"; plural '''moments of symmetry''', '''moment of symmetry scales''', '''MOS scales''', '''MOSes''', or '''mosses''') is a type of [[binary]], [[Periods and generators|periodic scale constructed using a generator]]. The concept of moment of symmetry scales were originally invented by [[Erv Wilson]].


== An example with the diatonic scale ==
== An example with the diatonic scale ''(for beginner page)'' ==
''Use sintel's example here.''


== Definition ''(for advanced page)'' ==
== An example with the diatonic scale ''(for advanced page)''==
=== Erv Wilson's original definition ===
=== Erv Wilson's original definition ===
Erv Wilson first described the concept in 1975 in ''Moments of Symmetry''. A moment-of-symmetry scale consists of:
Erv Wilson first described the concept in 1975 in ''Moments of Symmetry''. A moment-of-symmetry scale consists of: