7L 5s
↖ 6L 4s | ↑ 7L 4s | 8L 4s ↗ |
← 6L 5s | 7L 5s | 8L 5s → |
↙ 6L 6s | ↓ 7L 6s | 8L 6s ↘ |
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Scale structure
sLsLsLLsLsLL
Generator size
TAMNAMS information
Related MOS scales
Equal tunings
7L 5s is the MOS pattern of the meantone chromatic scale, which is the only notable harmonic entropy minimum in this range of possible scales. In meantone, "diatonic" semitones (~16/15), such as appear in the diatonic scale, for example B-C, are larger than "chromatic" semitones (~25/24), the intervals by which flats and sharps alter pitches.
The meantone chromatic scale with generator between 5\12 (500 cents) and 8\19 (505.263 cents) is proper.
Modes
- 11|0 LLsLsLLsLsLs
- 10|1 LLsLsLsLLsLs
- 9|2 LsLLsLsLLsLs
- 8|3 LsLLsLsLsLLs
- 7|4 LsLsLLsLsLLs
- 6|5 LsLsLLsLsLsL
- 5|6 LsLsLsLLsLsL
- 4|7 sLLsLsLLsLsL
- 3|8 sLLsLsLsLLsL
- 2|9 sLsLLsLsLLsL
- 1|10 sLsLLsLsLsLL
- 0|11 sLsLsLLsLsLL
Scales
- Meantone12 – 31edo tuning
- Meaneb471a – equal beating tuning of meantone
- Flattone12 – 13-limit POTE tuning of flattone
Scale tree
Generator | Cents | L | s | L/s | Comments | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5\12 | 500.000 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | ||||||
28\67 | 501.493 | 6 | 5 | 1.200 | ||||||
23\55 | 501.818 | 5 | 4 | 1.250 | ||||||
41\98 | 502.041 | 9 | 7 | 1.286 | ||||||
18\43 | 502.326 | 4 | 3 | 1.333 | Meantone / meridetone | |||||
49\117 | 502.564 | 11 | 8 | 1.375 | ||||||
31\74 | 502.703 | 7 | 5 | 1.400 | Meantone / huygens / grosstone | |||||
44\105 | 502.857 | 10 | 7 | 1.428 | ||||||
13\31 | 503.226 | 3 | 2 | 1.500 | ||||||
47\112 | 503.571 | 11 | 7 | 1.571 | ||||||
34\81 | 503.704 | 8 | 5 | 1.600 | Meantone | |||||
55\131 | 503.817 | 13 | 8 | 1.625 | Golden meantone (Generator: 503.7855 cents) | |||||
21\50 | 504.000 | 5 | 3 | 1.667 | Meantone / meanpop | |||||
50\119 | 504.202 | 12 | 7 | 1.714 | ||||||
29\69 | 504.348 | 7 | 4 | 1.750 | ||||||
37\88 | 504.545 | 9 | 5 | 1.800 | ||||||
8\19 | 505.263 | 2 | 1 | 2.000 | Basic m-chromatic (Generators smaller than this are proper) | |||||
35\83 | 506.024 | 9 | 4 | 2.250 | ||||||
27\64 | 506.250 | 7 | 3 | 2.333 | ||||||
46\109 | 506.422 | 12 | 5 | 2.400 | ||||||
19\45 | 506.667 | 5 | 2 | 2.500 | Flattone | |||||
49\116 | 506.897 | 13 | 5 | 2.600 | Golden flattone (Generator: 506.9365 cents) | |||||
30\71 | 507.042 | 8 | 3 | 2.667 | ||||||
41\97 | 507.216 | 11 | 4 | 2.750 | ||||||
11\26 | 507.692 | 3 | 1 | 3.000 | ||||||
36\85 | 508.235 | 10 | 3 | 3.333 | ||||||
25\59 | 508.475 | 7 | 2 | 3.500 | ||||||
39\92 | 508.696 | 11 | 3 | 3.667 | ||||||
14\33 | 509.091 | 4 | 1 | 4.000 | ||||||
31\73 | 509.589 | 9 | 2 | 4.500 | ||||||
17\40 | 510.000 | 5 | 1 | 5.000 | ||||||
20\47 | 510.638 | 6 | 1 | 6.000 | ||||||
3\7 | 514.286 | 1 | 0 | → inf |