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Scale 1907

Scale 1907, Ian Ring Music Theory
iii

i = imperfections

Tones8 (octatonic)
Pitch Class Set{0,1,4,5,6,8,9,10}
Forte Number8-19
Rotational Symmetrynone
Palindromicno
Hemitonia5 (multihemitonic)
Cohemitonia2 (dicohemitonic)
Imperfections3
Modes7
Prime?no
prime: 887
Chiralityyes
enantiomorph: 2525
Deep Scaleno
Interval Vector545752
Interval Spectrump5m7n5s4d5t2
Distribution Spectra<1> = {1,2,3}
<2> = {2,3,4}
<3> = {4,5,6}
<4> = {5,6,7}
<5> = {6,7,8}
<6> = {8,9,10}
<7> = {9,10,11}
Spectra Variation1.75
Myhill Propertyno
Balancedno
Coherenceno
Heliotonicno

Modes

Modes are the rotational transformation of this scale. Scale 1907 can be rotated to make 7 other scales. The 1st mode is itself.

2nd mode:
Scale 3001		Scale 3001, Ian Ring Music Theory
3rd mode:
Scale 887		Scale 887, Ian Ring Music TheoryThis is the prime mode
4th mode:
Scale 2491		Scale 2491, Ian Ring Music Theory
5th mode:
Scale 3293		Scale 3293, Ian Ring Music Theory
6th mode:
Scale 1847		Scale 1847, Ian Ring Music Theory
7th mode:
Scale 2971		Scale 2971, Ian Ring Music Theory
8th mode:
Scale 3533		Scale 3533, Ian Ring Music Theory

Prime

The prime form of this scale is Scale 887

Scale 887Scale 887, Ian Ring Music Theory

Negative

The octatonic modal family [1907, 3001, 887, 2491, 3293, 1847, 2971, 3533] is the negative of the tetratonic modal family [275, 305, 785, 2185]

Inverse

The inverse of a scale is a reflection using the root as its axis. The inverse of 1907 is 2525

Scale 2525Scale 2525, Ian Ring Music Theory

Enantiomorph

Only scales that are chiral will have an enantiomorph. Scale 1907 is chiral, and its enantiomorph is scale 2525

Scale 2525Scale 2525, Ian Ring Music Theory

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 1905Scale 1905, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1909Scale 1909, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1911Scale 1911: Messiaen mode 3, Ian Ring Music TheoryMessiaen mode 3
Scale 1915Scale 1915, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1891Scale 1891, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1899Scale 1899, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1875Scale 1875, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1843Scale 1843, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1971Scale 1971, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2035Scale 2035, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1651Scale 1651: Asian, Ian Ring Music TheoryAsian
Scale 1779Scale 1779, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1395Scale 1395: Asian (a), Ian Ring Music TheoryAsian (a)
Scale 883Scale 883, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2931Scale 2931, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 3955Scale 3955, 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