Hexatonic

A hexatonic scale is a scale with 6 tones per equave.

Hexatonic MOS scales may be found at: Hexatonic MOS.

Other hexatonic scales may be found at: Category:6-tone scales.

Hexatonic scales may sometimes be used as chords rather than scales, in which case they are called hexads.

“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, the first mode of 6afdo.

See also

• Pentatonic
• Heptatonic