Hexatonic scale: Difference between revisions
mNo edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
“Equihexatonic” scales are scales with 6 roughly equally spaced tones per [[octave]]. Equihexatonic scales are rare in the world’s musical traditions, with one big exception: the whole tone scale of modern Western music. It is an equihexatonic scale, so equi-, in fact, that it is exactly [[6edo]]. | “Equihexatonic” scales are scales with 6 roughly equally spaced tones per [[octave]]. Equihexatonic scales are rare in the world’s musical traditions, with one big exception: the whole tone scale of modern Western music. It is an equihexatonic scale, so equi-, in fact, that it is exactly [[6edo]]. | ||
6 equal frequency divisions instead of pitch gives the hexatonic [[overtone scale]] named [[6afdo]]. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||