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Scale 891

Scale 891, Ian Ring Music Theory
iii

i = imperfections

Tones8 (octatonic)
Pitch Class Set{0,1,3,4,5,6,8,9}
Forte Number8-17
Rotational Symmetrynone
Palindromicno
Hemitonia5 (multihemitonic)
Cohemitonia2 (dicohemitonic)
Imperfections3
Modes7
Prime?yes
Chiralityno
Deep Scaleno
Interval Vector546652
Interval Spectrump5m6n6s4d5t2
Distribution Spectra<1> = {1,2,3}
<2> = {2,3,4}
<3> = {3,4,5,6}
<4> = {5,7}
<5> = {6,7,8,9}
<6> = {8,9,10}
<7> = {9,10,11}
Spectra Variation2
Myhill Propertyno
Balancedno
Coherenceno
Heliotonicno

Modes

Modes are the rotational transformation of this scale. Scale 891 can be rotated to make 7 other scales. The 1st mode is itself.

2nd mode:
Scale 2493		Scale 2493, Ian Ring Music Theory
3rd mode:
Scale 1647		Scale 1647, Ian Ring Music Theory
4th mode:
Scale 2871		Scale 2871, Ian Ring Music Theory
5th mode:
Scale 3483		Scale 3483, Ian Ring Music Theory
6th mode:
Scale 3789		Scale 3789, Ian Ring Music Theory
7th mode:
Scale 1971		Scale 1971, Ian Ring Music Theory
8th mode:
Scale 3033		Scale 3033, Ian Ring Music Theory

Prime

This is the prime form of this scale.

Negative

The octatonic modal family [891, 2493, 1647, 2871, 3483, 3789, 1971, 3033] is the negative of the tetratonic modal family [153, 531, 801, 2313]

Inverse

The inverse of a scale is a reflection using the root as its axis. The inverse of 891 is 3033

Scale 3033Scale 3033, 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 889Scale 889, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 893Scale 893, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 895Scale 895, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 883Scale 883, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 887Scale 887, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 875Scale 875: Locrian Double-flat 7, Ian Ring Music TheoryLocrian Double-flat 7
Scale 859Scale 859: Ultralocrian, Ian Ring Music TheoryUltralocrian
Scale 827Scale 827, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 955Scale 955, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1019Scale 1019, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 635Scale 635, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 763Scale 763, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 379Scale 379, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 1403Scale 1403: Espla's scale, Ian Ring Music TheoryEspla's scale
Scale 1915Scale 1915, Ian Ring Music Theory
Scale 2939Scale 2939, 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