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*Sarnathian (SLSLLSLL) is like downwards melodic minor (When starting from the octave above, the 4th degree sounds like a minor third; it's actually a diminished fourth.)
*Sarnathian (SLSLLSLL) is like downwards melodic minor (When starting from the octave above, the 4th degree sounds like a minor third; it's actually a diminished fourth.)


When working up from the tonic, the darker modes are radically different in character than the brighter modes. Because the fifth and seventh scale degrees become the more consonant minor tritone and the minor sixth respectively, the flat tritone sounds more like a stable scale function. Hlanithian, in particular, is a lot like a more stable version of the Locrian mode in diatonic. Close-to-optimal [[petrtri]] tunings such as [[34edo]] may be particularly useful for Sarnathian, as Sarnathian in these tunings uniquely approximates four over-2 harmonics plausibly, namely 17/16, 5/4, 11/8, and 13/8.
When working up from the tonic, the darker modes are radically different in character than the brighter modes. Because the fifth and seventh scale degrees become the more consonant minor tritone and the minor sixth respectively, the flat tritone sounds more like a stable scale function. Hlanithian, in particular, is a lot like a more stable version of the Locrian mode in diatonic.


==== Important MODMOSes ====
==== Important MODMOSes ====