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  • Chinese music: 12 pitches of the lü
    Chinese music
    / Scales and modes

    …it seems to become the pitch centre. Such variations of pitch centre within a scale yield different modes. In the Western traditional systems most scales use seven tones that can be transposed and that contain modes. For example, C major (C–D–E–F–G–A–B) can be made into the Dorian church mode by…

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    …it seems to become the pitch centre. Such variations of pitch centre within a scale yield different modes. In the Western traditional systems most scales use seven tones that can be transposed and that contain modes. For example, C major (C–D–E–F–G–A–B) can be made into the Dorian church mode by…

    Read More