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Scale 2863

Scale 2863, Ian Ring Music Theory
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i = imperfections

Tones8 (octatonic)
Pitch Class Set{0,1,2,3,5,8,9,11}
Forte Number8-12
Rotational Symmetrynone
Palindromicno
Hemitonia5 (multihemitonic)
Cohemitonia3 (tricohemitonic)
Imperfections4
Modes7
Prime?no
prime: 763
Chiralityyes
enantiomorph: 3739
Deep Scaleno
Interval Vector556543
Interval Spectrump4m5n6s5d5t3
Distribution Spectra<1> = {1,2,3}
<2> = {2,3,4,5}
<3> = {3,4,6}
<4> = {4,5,7,8}
<5> = {6,8,9}
<6> = {7,8,9,10}
<7> = {9,10,11}
Spectra Variation2.5
Myhill Propertyno
Balancedno
Coherenceno
Heliotonicno

Modes

Modes are the rotational transformation of this scale. Scale 2863 can be rotated to make 7 other scales. The 1st mode is itself.

2nd mode:
Scale 3479		Scale 3479, Ian Ring Music Theory
3rd mode:
Scale 3787		Scale 3787, Ian Ring Music Theory
4th mode:
Scale 3941		Scale 3941, Ian Ring Music Theory
5th mode:
Scale 2009		Scale 2009, Ian Ring Music Theory
6th mode:
Scale 763		Scale 763, Ian Ring Music TheoryThis is the prime mode
7th mode:
Scale 2429		Scale 2429, Ian Ring Music Theory
8th mode:
Scale 1631		Scale 1631, Ian Ring Music Theory

Prime

The prime form of this scale is Scale 763

Scale 763Scale 763, Ian Ring Music Theory

Negative

The octatonic modal family [2863, 3479, 3787, 3941, 2009, 763, 2429, 1631] is the negative of the tetratonic modal family [77, 833, 1043, 2569]

Inverse

The inverse of a scale is a reflection using the root as its axis. The inverse of 2863 is 3739

Scale 3739Scale 3739, Ian Ring Music Theory

Enantiomorph

Only scales that are chiral will have an enantiomorph. Scale 2863 is chiral, and its enantiomorph is scale 3739

Scale 3739Scale 3739, 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 2861Scale 2861, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2859Scale 2859, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2855Scale 2855, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2871Scale 2871, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2879Scale 2879, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2831Scale 2831, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2847Scale 2847, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2895Scale 2895, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2927Scale 2927, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2991Scale 2991, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2607Scale 2607, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2735Scale 2735, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2351Scale 2351, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 3375Scale 3375, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 3887Scale 3887, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 815Scale 815, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1839Scale 1839, 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