Music Scales dictionary - SCALES new Version 4.25 - A Complete Dictionary & tool for  every music scale in the equal tempered system.
for Windows platform only

Definitions

Equal tempered tone system where the ratio between all twelve half tone frequencies are equal. In the SCALES dictionary software you have an interval calculator, where you can calculate any value concerning tone frequencies and intervals.

Interval row Any number of consecutive intervals. If the total number of half tonesteps in the row equal 12, the interval row becomes a scale.

Scaletonic transposition A transposition where only the tones in the scale are involved.

Scale object = scale or music element is an epitome of all things you can play, rearrange or edit in the SCALES software dictionary like scales, chords, intervals, interval rows, and tone series in various positions.

Systematic name (systematic scale name) is a logical name derived from the scale itself. Example: The tones c d e f g a b c makes the interval row AABAAAB (whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half tone step) which form the systematic texture name A3BA2B and the logical scale name A3BA2B(4) in this texture. This is applied in other sciences too, for example H2O is a systematic name whereas water is not.

Tone series (tone row) Any pattern of tones. If the tone series comprise every tone in the chromatic scale, it is named a twelve tone series. Tone series may be transformed into original, inverse, retrograde and retrograde inverse. All these features are realized by single button clicks in the SCALES dictionary software.

Texture (scale texture) is an interval pattern put in lexical order. Example: see Systematic name.

Trivial name (trivial scale name) is any non-systematic name like Major, Harmonic Minor, Mixolydian, Be-bop, wholetone scale, pentatonic etc. The trivial names list in the SCALES dictionary software comprise more than 650 trivial names, all of which you look up and play by single clicks. See also the scale systematics page!

Download software SCALES63.ZIP ~4.17 Mb

ROTATING A COMMON SCALE OBJECT: LYDIAN - MIXOLYDIAN - LYDIAN IN THE COMMON DIATONIC MAJOR SCALE