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Compiling global examples of music in the Chromatic Scale
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Real-world examples of the scale in action:
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Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…
[analysis: coming soon]
—Classifiers & Quirks—
- Modes: Like all ‘regular’ scales, the Chromatic sequence is ‘optimally rotationally symmetric‘ (i.e. all of its modes are identical to the scale itself)
- Quirks: Co-cohemitonic; Centred; Maximal; Palindromic; Reflectional sym.; Rotational sym. (imperfect: none; detached: none)
- Names: Chromatic, 12-tet Chromatic (Western)
n.b. For more detailed geometric and mathematical analysis, refer to this scale’s entry in Ian Ring’s fantastic Exciting Universe of Music Theory project (for which I am an occasional ‘raga consultant’)
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