source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 02:40:27 +0200 Subject: RE: Help!!! From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) The intervals in this list of modes are expressed in number of degrees 1 1 2 1 2 Thai mode 1 1 2 1 2 1 ,, ,, 2 2 1 1 2 1 ,, ,, 6 So in this case of the Thai equal tempered heptatonic scale a 1 means one tone of 171 cents, a 2 means two of those: 343 cents, etc. These are the intervals between consecutive tones. To find out which degrees are used, add the numbers from left to right: 1 1 2 1 2 0 1 2 4 5 7 These Thai modes I found I think in the New Grove music dictionary under "mode". Another example: 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 Chromatic Dorian C Db D F G Ab A C For 12-tone scales each number is a semitone, for 19-tone scales a third tone, etc. But for unequal scales like the 17-tone Arabic Pythagorean scale it's just the number of tones of the "parent scale" if you like between two consecutive tones of the mode. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 02:41 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14214; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 02:41:48 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 02:41:48 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14202 Received: (qmail 10386 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1997 00:41:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jun 1997 00:41:12 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu