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The theory of modular scale with music

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Basics

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Basic Terminology

Music

  • Pitch: Quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
  • Interval: Difference in pitch between two sounds.
  • Scale: Any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.
  • Chord: Any harmonic set of pitches consisting of multiple notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.

Map to CSS Size

  • Pitch => Units(px, pt, ...ETC)
  • Interval => Scale Ratio
  • Scale => number of notes
  • Chord => h1, h2, p harmonic

The_Abstract_Sound_Variables

Classic Modular Scale

  • 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 28, 32, 36, 42, 48, 55, 63, 73, 84, 96, ...

Pitch

Quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale.

Pitch can be determined only in sounds that have a frequency that is clear and stable enough to distinguish from noise.

Pitch_perception

Modular Scale

Various units(px, rem, ...) of CSS can be the standard of high and low.

Interval

Difference in pitch between two sounds.

Main_intervals_from_C

An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody.
Vertical or harmonic if it pertains to simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a chord.

Number of semitones Intervals(Minor, Major, Perfect) Short Interval(Augmented or Diminished) Short Alias Short Pitch Ratio(5-limit tuning) Decimal Multiplier Frequency(Hz)
0 Perfect unison P1 Diminished second d2 1:1 1 2^{0 \over 12} 440
1 Minor second m2 Augmented unison A1 Semitone S 16:15 1.067 2^{1 \over 12} 466.16
2 Major second M2 Diminished third d3 Tone T 9:8 1.125 2^{2 \over 12} 493.88
3 Minor third m3 Augmented second A2 6:5 1.2 2^{3 \over 12} 523.25
4 Major third M3 Diminished fourth d4 5:4 1.25 2^{4 \over 12} 554.37
5 Perfect fourth P4 Augmented third A3 4:3 1.333 2^{5 \over 12} 587.33
6 Diminished fifth / Augmented fourth d5 / A4 Tritone TT 45:32 1.414 2^{6 \over 12} 622.25
7 Perfect fifth P5 Diminished sixth d6 3:2 1.5 2^{7 \over 12} 659.26
8 Minor sixth m6 Augmented fifth A5 8:5 1.6 2^{8 \over 12} 698.46
9 Major sixth M6 Diminished seventh d7 5:3 1.667 2^{9 \over 12} 739.99
10 Minor seventh m7 Augmented sixth A6 16:9 1.778 2^{10 \over 12} 783.99
11 Major seventh M7 Diminished octave d8 15:8 1.875 2^{11 \over 12} 830.61
12 Perfect Octave P8 Augmented seventh A7 2:1 2 2^{12 \over 12} 880
  • Semitone is half tone

Modular Scale

modularscale-increase

Just as octave units in music have twice the frequency, they can grow as in classic modular scale:

  • 6, ..., 12, ..., 24, ..., 48, ..., 96, ...

Scale

Any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.

Major_scale_in_the_chromatic_circle

For example, the diatonic scale consists of 7 out of 12 notes.

Types of scale

Scale number of different pitch classes
monotonic 1
ditonic 2
tritonic 3
tetratonic 4
pentatonic 5
hexatonic 6
heptatonic 7
octatonic 8
decatonic 10
chromatic 12

Modular Scale

modularscale-Interval

Simply put, it's like a few notes to the next octave.

Classic modular scale's value is 5:

  • 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 28, 32, 36, 42, 48, 55, 63, 73, 84, 96, ...

Straighten out

You can now set the default formula for the modular scale.

Formula

f_i = f_0 \times r^{i \over n}
  • f_0: base size, classic defalut is 12pt
  • i: ith
  • n: number of notes(interval at which the ratio is made), classic default is 5
  • r: scale ratio, classic defalut is 2($octave)

Chord

Timbre Timbre_perception

Reference

Book

Article - Sound

Article - Basics

Article - Theory

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