Logseq/Entity/Music/Scale
Music Scale
- In this garden, Music Scale pages model a named collection of pitches ordered from a tonic — a scale, a mode, or a parent scale such as a Hindustani thaat — described apart from any key or instrument.
What counts
- A named pitch collection with a tonic: the major scale, the church modes, the minor variants, pentatonic and hexatonic collections, symmetrical scales, and scales from other traditions under the names Western menus give them.
- A scale page has no fixed tonic pitch. C major is the major scale on C; a piece or key in C major links to Music/Scale/Major.
- A raga has a page of its own, which links to the scale page of its parent thaat.
- Chords, tuning systems and a device's scale menu have pages of their own. A device's user guide links each menu entry to its scale page.
Naming and placement
- A scale lives at
Music/Scale/<Name>, under Music/Scale. Family nouns come first and qualifiers nest beneath them: Music/Scale/Minor/Natural, Music/Scale/Minor/Harmonic, Music/Scale/Pentatonic/Major. - A scale whose common name qualifies another scale's name nests under that scale. The nesting follows the name even when the scale derives from elsewhere: Music/Scale/Dorian/Ukrainian is the fourth mode of harmonic minor.
- The leaf carries the most common English-language name. The first line under the H1 gives the scale's other names: mode names, names from other traditions, and spellings found in device manuals.
- A transliterated name uses the standard spelling in the leaf. Music/Scale/Marwa mentions Marva, the Launchpad's spelling.
Finding and deduplicating
- One collection often carries several names. Aeolian and natural minor share one page.
- Compare
scale-semitones-above-tonic:: values before creating a page. A rotation of an existing scale is a different mode and gets its own page. - Sources disagree on the pitches behind some names, such as Hirajoshi, Bebop Dorian and Blues. One page holds the name and describes the variants.
Frontmatter
Page shape
- One H1 with the scale's common name, followed by a line giving its other names, its spelling on C and its steps in semitones.
- Sections
## History, ## Use and ## Quirks. Pages assume formal training in composition and theory: they skip definitions of intervals and modes and spend the space on origins, repertoire and structural properties. - When a device manual spells a scale differently from its standard form, the scale page notes the difference under Quirks and links the manual page.
- A mode page links the scale it rotates; a variant links the scale it alters.
Examples