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Contents
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Introduction
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Where known, names of scales have been written in atop the appropriate columns of the grid. There are six 2-note 'scale' families (not included) and six 10-note ones; nineteen 3-note and 9-note families; forty-three 4-note and 8-note families; sixty-six 5-note and 7-note families; eighty 6-note families and one 11-note family Three-note families go from 1 to 19 Four-note families………………20 to 62 Five-note families……………….63 to 128 Six-note families………………….129 to 208 Seven-note families…………….209 to 274 Eight-note families……………..275 to 317 Nine-note families………………318 to 336 Ten-note families………………..337 to 342 Eleven-note family……….…….343 Twelve-note family…….………344 Symmetric scales: 1, 20, 22, 51, 129, 135, 137, 151, 185, 275, 279, 296, 318 and 337.
80 six-note families 66 five and seven-note families
43 four and eight-note families
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19 three and nine-note families 6 tw o and ten-note 'families'
Number 1 of notes per family
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1 single-noter and 1 eleven-noter
Index of Some Named Scales
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Legend 1
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3-Note Scales
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4-Note Scales
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5-Note Scales
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6-Note Scales
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On 7-Note Scales, 209 and Foreign Scales
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7-Note Scales
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8-Note Scales
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9-Note Scales
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10-Note Scales
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11-Note Scales
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12-Note Scale
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Introduction 2 and Legend 2
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Subscales
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Text
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Backings for Practice
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Temperament
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Table of CD Contents
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