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Chapter 6: The Auto-Tune Live Scales
The following are brief descriptions of the scales available in
Auto-Tune Live:
MODERN EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
These first three equal-tempered scales are the ubiquitous scales typically
found in Western tonal music:
Major: A seven-tone equal tempered major scale.
Minor: A seven-tone equal tempered minor scale.
Equal Tempered chromatic: A twelve-tone equal tempered
chromatic scale.
HISTORICAL TUNINGS
Ling Lun: A twelve-tone scale dating from 2Live00 B.C. China.
Scholar’s Lute: A seven-tone scale dating from 300 B.C. China.
Greek diatonic genus: A seven-tone scale from ancient Greece.
Greek chromatic genus: A seven-tone scale from ancient Greece.
Greek enharmonic genus: A seven-tone scale from ancient Greece.
Pythagorean: A twelve-tone scale dating from 600 B.C. Greece. This scale
is derived by tuning twelve pure perfect fifths upward and adjusting the
octaves downward. This leads to some pure intervals and some very
impure intervals.
Just (major chromatic): A twelve-tone scale. Just intonation tunes the most
frequently used intervals to be pure (integer ratios in frequency). These
tunings depend on the mode (major or minor) and the key. This scale is
tuned for major mode.
Just (minor chromatic): (See Just (major chromatic), above)
Meantone chromatic: A twelve-tone scale. This tuning is a combination of
Pythagorean and just tunings so that music in a wider variety of keys could
be playable.
Werckmeister III: A twelve-tone scale. This scale was a first attempt (about
Bach’s time) to allow an instrument to be played in any scale. It was in
response to this scale that Bach wrote Well-Tempered Clavier.