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  2. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Use of key signature usual or unusual 15 equal temperament: 15-tet scale on C. Play ... 5 — — Unusual Ionian mode or major scale: Ionian on C. Play ...

  3. Piano key frequencies - Wikipedia

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    The normal 88 keys were numbered 1–88, with the extra low keys numbered 89–97 and the extra high keys numbered 98–108. A 108-key piano that extends from C 0 to B 8 was first built in 2018 by Stuart & Sons. [4] (Note: these piano key numbers 1-108 are not the n keys in the equations or the table.)

  4. Music written in all major or minor keys - Wikipedia

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    The title page of the first book of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which covers all 24 major and minor keys.. There is a long tradition in classical music of writing music in sets of pieces that cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.

  5. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    The "chord" row lists tetrads that can be built from the pitches in the given mode [80] (in jazz notation, the symbol Δ is for a major seventh). Since Dorian mode is the "middle" mode, we compare it with other modes: (♯ and ♭ are dual, 2 and 7 are dual, 3 and 6 are dual, 4 and 5 are dual)

  6. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Time signatures indicate the number of beats in each measure (the top number) and also show what type of note represents a single beat (the bottom number). There may be any number of beats in a measure but the most common by far are multiples of 2 or 3 (i.e., a top number of 2, 3, 4, or 6).

  7. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

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    Such a sequence of pitches is produced, for example, by playing all the black and white keys of a piano in order. The structure of a chromatic scale is therefore uniform throughout—unlike major and minor scales, which have tones and semitones in particular arrangements (and an augmented second, in the harmonic minor). [17]

  8. Diatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    As explained above, all major scales use the same interval sequence T–T–S–T–T–T–S. This interval sequence was called the Ionian mode by Glarean. It is one of the seven modern modes. From any major scale, a new scale is obtained by taking a different degree as the tonic. With this method it is possible to generate six other scales or ...

  9. 12 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    12-tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. 12 equal temperament (12-ET) [a] is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).