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Scale 2949

Scale 2949, Ian Ring Music Theory

i = imperfections

Tones6 (hexatonic)
Pitch Class Set{0,2,7,8,9,11}
Forte Number6-Z11
Rotational Symmetrynone
Palindromicno
Hemitonia3 (trihemitonic)
Cohemitonia1 (uncohemitonic)
Imperfections3
Modes5
Prime?no
prime: 183
Chiralityyes
enantiomorph: 1083
Deep Scaleno
Interval Vector333231
Interval Spectrump3m2n3s3d3t
Distribution Spectra<1> = {1,2,5}
<2> = {2,3,6,7}
<3> = {4,5,7,8}
<4> = {5,6,9,10}
<5> = {7,10,11}
Spectra Variation3.667
Myhill Propertyno
Balancedno
Coherenceno
Heliotonicno

Modes

Modes are the rotational transformation of this scale. Scale 2949 can be rotated to make 5 other scales. The 1st mode is itself.

2nd mode:
Scale 1761		Scale 1761, Ian Ring Music Theory
3rd mode:
Scale 183		Scale 183, Ian Ring Music TheoryThis is the prime mode
4th mode:
Scale 2139		Scale 2139, Ian Ring Music Theory
5th mode:
Scale 3117		Scale 3117, Ian Ring Music Theory
6th mode:
Scale 1803		Scale 1803, Ian Ring Music Theory

Prime

The prime form of this scale is Scale 183

Scale 183Scale 183, Ian Ring Music Theory

Negative

The hexatonic modal family [2949, 1761, 183, 2139, 3117, 1803] is the negative of the hexatonic modal family [303, 753, 1929, 2199, 3147, 3621]

Inverse

The inverse of a scale is a reflection using the root as its axis. The inverse of 2949 is 1083

Scale 1083Scale 1083, Ian Ring Music Theory

Enantiomorph

Only scales that are chiral will have an enantiomorph. Scale 2949 is chiral, and its enantiomorph is scale 1083

Scale 1083Scale 1083, 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 2951Scale 2951, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2945Scale 2945, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2947Scale 2947, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2953Scale 2953, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2957Scale 2957, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2965Scale 2965, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2981Scale 2981, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 3013Scale 3013, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2821Scale 2821, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2885Scale 2885, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2693Scale 2693, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2437Scale 2437, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 3461Scale 3461, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 3973Scale 3973, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 901Scale 901, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1925Scale 1925, 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