This page lists all moment of symmetry scales in 12edo.
Single-period MOS scales
Generators 7\12 and 5\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├──────┼────┤
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1L 1s
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7, 5
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7:5
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| ├─┼────┼────┤
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2L 1s
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5, 2
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5:2
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| ├─┼─┼──┼─┼──┤
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2L 3s
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3, 2
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3:2
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| ├─┼─┼─┼┼─┼─┼┤
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5L 2s (diatonic)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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12edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 8\12 and 4\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├───────┼───┤
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1L 1s
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8, 4
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2:1
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| ├───┼───┼───┤
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3edo
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4, 4
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1:1
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Generators 9\12 and 3\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├────────┼──┤
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1L 1s
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9, 3
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3:1
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| ├─────┼──┼──┤
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1L 2s
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6, 3
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2:1
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| ├──┼──┼──┼──┤
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4edo
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3, 3
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1:1
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Generators 10\12 and 2\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├─────────┼─┤
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1L 1s
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10, 2
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5:1
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| ├───────┼─┼─┤
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1L 2s
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8, 2
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4:1
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| ├─────┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 3s
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6, 2
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3:1
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| ├───┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 4s
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4, 2
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2:1
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| ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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6edo
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2, 2
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1:1
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Generators 11\12 and 1\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├──────────┼┤
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1L 1s
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11, 1
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11:1
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| ├─────────┼┼┤
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1L 2s
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10, 1
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10:1
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| ├────────┼┼┼┤
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1L 3s
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9, 1
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9:1
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| ├───────┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 4s
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8, 1
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8:1
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| ├──────┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 5s (antimachinoid)
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7, 1
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7:1
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| ├─────┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 6s (onyx)
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6, 1
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6:1
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| ├────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 7s (antipine)
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├───┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 8s (antisubneutralic)
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├──┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 9s (antisinatonic)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 10s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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12edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Multi-period MOS scales
2 periods
Generators 4\12 and 2\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├───┼─┼───┼─┤
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2L 2s
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4, 2
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2:1
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| ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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6edo
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2, 2
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1:1
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Generators 5\12 and 1\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├────┼┼────┼┤
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2L 2s
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├───┼┼┼───┼┼┤
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2L 4s (malic)
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├──┼┼┼┼──┼┼┼┤
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2L 6s (subaric)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼┤
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2L 8s (jaric)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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12edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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3 periods
Generators 3\12 and 1\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├──┼┼──┼┼──┼┤
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3L 3s (triwood)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┤
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3L 6s (tcherepnin)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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12edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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4 periods
Generators 2\12 and 1\12
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┤
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4L 4s (tetrawood)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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12edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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