On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:39:53 +0100, James Morris wrote > [...] > (Unless I'm mistaken) all the above scales can be transposed to work > with any key. Indeed. > Now I'm not very musical, and found my way to wikipedia, > specifically this page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_tone_scale > > Which says "In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each > note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole > step. There are only two complementary whole tone scales, both six- > note or hexatonic scales: * {C, D, E, [UTF-8?]Fâ?¯, [UTF-8?]Gâ?¯, [UTF-8?]Aâ?¯, C} * > {B, [UTF-8?]Dâ?, [UTF-8?]Eâ?, F, G, A, B}. " > > Which is confusing for me because it seems I can represent it in the > array as: > > { "Whole Tone", { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 ,0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0 }}, or: { "Whole Tone as well" { 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 } > But goes on to say I it is impossible for any key other than "c" or > "b" but the array representation seems to show it could work for any > key. > > Can anyone explain? Well, you can have one on C od on D, any transposition will have the same notes as either the C or the D version. HTH Ralf Mattes > Cheers, > James. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg rm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
