Kartvelian scale

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The Kartvelian (heptatonic) scale is the traditional scale of Georgian folk music, Musicologically, it is a candidate for the prototypical well temperament, being an alternating pattern of 4edf and 3ed4/3.

Intervals

Intervals
Degree Cents
1 175.489
2 350.978
3 526.466
4 701.955
5 867.970
6 1033.985
7 1200.000

Video

"The empirical research of a Georgian sound scale" by Z. Tsereteli and L. Veshapidze


Georgian chant tuning (Malkhaz Erkvanidze demonstrates)


See also