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More About Scales
Historical Tunings
• Ling Lun: a twelve-tone
scale dating from 2700
B.C. China.
• Scholar’s Lute: a seven-
tone scale dating from
300 B.C. China.
• Greek diatonic genus: a
seven-tone scale from
ancient Greece.
• Greek chromatic genus:
a seven-tone scale from
ancient Greece.
• Greek enharmonic
genus: a seven-tone scale
from ancient Greece.
• Pythagorean: a twelve-tone scale dating from 600 B.C.
Greece. This scale is derived by tuning twelve pure
perfect fifths upward and adjusting the octaves
downward. This leads to some pure intervals and some
very impure intervals.
• Just (major chromatic): a twelve-tone scale. Just
intonation tunes the most frequently used intervals to
be pure (integer ratios in frequency). These tunings
depend on the mode (major or minor) and the key. This
scale is tuned for major mode.
• Just (minor chromatic): (See Just (major chromatic),
above)
• Meantone chrom.: a twelve-tone scale. This tuning is a
combination of Pythagorean and Just tunings so that
music in a wider variety of keys could be usable.