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Scale 1707: "Mela Natakapriya"

Also known as: Jazz Minor inverse, Phrygian-Mixolydian, Dorian flat 2, Raga Natabharanam, Ahiri Todi, Javanese Pelog, Pelog

Scale 1707: Mela Natakapriya, Ian Ring Music Theory
iii

i = imperfections

Tones7 (heptatonic)
Pitch Class Set{0,1,3,5,7,9,10}
Forte Number7-34
Rotational Symmetrynone
Palindromicno
Hemitonia2 (dihemitonic)
Cohemitonia0 (ancohemitonic)
Imperfections3
Modes6
Prime?no
prime: 1371
Chiralityno
Deep Scaleno
Interval Vector254442
Interval Spectrump4m4n4s5d2t2
Distribution Spectra<1> = {1,2}
<2> = {3,4}
<3> = {4,5,6}
<4> = {6,7,8}
<5> = {8,9}
<6> = {10,11}
Spectra Variation1.143
Myhill Propertyno
Balancedno
Coherenceno
Heliotonicyes

Harmonic Chords

Modes

Modes are the rotational transformation of this scale. Scale 1707 can be rotated to make 6 other scales. The 1st mode is itself.

2nd mode:
Scale 2901		Scale 2901: Lydian Augmented, Ian Ring Music TheoryLydian Augmented
3rd mode:
Scale 1749		Scale 1749: Acoustic, Ian Ring Music TheoryAcoustic
4th mode:
Scale 1461		Scale 1461: Major-Minor, Ian Ring Music TheoryMajor-Minor
5th mode:
Scale 1389		Scale 1389: Minor Locrian, Ian Ring Music TheoryMinor Locrian
6th mode:
Scale 1371		Scale 1371: Superlocrian, Ian Ring Music TheorySuperlocrianThis is the prime mode
7th mode:
Scale 2733		Scale 2733: Melodic Minor ascending, Ian Ring Music TheoryMelodic Minor ascending

Prime

The prime form of this scale is Scale 1371

Scale 1371Scale 1371: Superlocrian, Ian Ring Music TheorySuperlocrian

Negative

The heptatonic modal family [1707, 2901, 1749, 1461, 1389, 1371, 2733] is the negative of the pentatonic modal family [597, 681, 1173, 1317, 1353]

Inverse

The inverse of a scale is a reflection using the root as its axis. The inverse of 1707 is 2733

Scale 2733Scale 2733: Melodic Minor ascending, Ian Ring Music TheoryMelodic Minor ascending

Nearby Scales:

These are other scales that are similar to this one, created by adding a tone, removing a tone, or moving one note up or down a semitone.

Scale 1705Scale 1705: Raga Manohari, Ian Ring Music TheoryRaga Manohari
Scale 1709Scale 1709: Dorian, Ian Ring Music TheoryDorian
Scale 1711Scale 1711: Adonai Malakh, Ian Ring Music TheoryAdonai Malakh
Scale 1699Scale 1699: Raga Rasavali, Ian Ring Music TheoryRaga Rasavali
Scale 1703Scale 1703: Mela Vanaspati, Ian Ring Music TheoryMela Vanaspati
Scale 1715Scale 1715: Harmonic Minor inverse, Ian Ring Music TheoryHarmonic Minor inverse
Scale 1723Scale 1723: JG Octatonic, Ian Ring Music TheoryJG Octatonic
Scale 1675Scale 1675: Raga Salagavarali, Ian Ring Music TheoryRaga Salagavarali
Scale 1691Scale 1691, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1739Scale 1739: Mela Sadvidhamargini, Ian Ring Music TheoryMela Sadvidhamargini
Scale 1771Scale 1771, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1579Scale 1579, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1643Scale 1643: Locrian natural 6, Ian Ring Music TheoryLocrian natural 6
Scale 1835Scale 1835, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1963Scale 1963, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1195Scale 1195: Raga Gandharavam, Ian Ring Music TheoryRaga Gandharavam
Scale 1451Scale 1451: Phrygian, Ian Ring Music TheoryPhrygian
Scale 683Scale 683, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2731Scale 2731: Neapolitan Major, Ian Ring Music TheoryNeapolitan Major
Scale 3755Scale 3755, Ian Ring Music Theory

This scale analysis was created by Ian Ring, Canadian Composer of works for Piano, and total music theory nerd. The software used to generate this analysis is an open source project at GitHub. Scale notation generated by VexFlow, and MIDI playback by MIDI.js