13edo scales: Difference between revisions
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The darker modes are radically different in character than the brighter modes... | The darker modes are radically different in character than the brighter modes... | ||
=== | === 8-note scales as modified 12edo scales === | ||
As stated many times, octatonic scales in 13edo are heptatonic scales in 12edo with one extra small step. Key: You have a choice over where to put the new small step! | |||
You can also view oneirotonic modes as scales made of two shrunken 12edo tetrachords, each spanning a minor fourth, and one trichord spanning a minor third. This will let you build 13edo "tetrachordal" scales with a similar structure that is not one of the 8 modes, with tetrachord structures similar to 12edo ones. For example: | You can also view oneirotonic modes as scales made of two shrunken 12edo tetrachords, each spanning a minor fourth, and one trichord spanning a minor third. This will let you build 13edo "tetrachordal" scales with a similar structure that is not one of the 8 modes, with tetrachord structures similar to 12edo ones. For example: | ||
*[2 2 1] [2 1 2] [1 2] is a kind of Mixolydian | *[2 2 1] [2 1 2] [1 2] is a kind of Mixolydian | ||