Audio samples Other tunings
- Diatonic Just Intonation scale
1/1 9/8 5/4 4/3 3/2 5/3 15/8 2/1(c d e f g a b c) - Chromatic Just Intonation scale
1/1 16/15 9/8 6/5 5/4 4/3 45/32 3/2 8/5 5/3 16/9 15/8 2/1(c d-flat d e-flat e f f-sharp g a-flat a b-flat b c) - “Hagia” scale (Plagal II) of the Byzantine church music, with the degrees νή πά βου γα δί κε ζω νή (c d e f g a b c)
Tetrachords
Special intervals defined as subdivisions into four tones in the form A + B + C = fourth and classified into the modes “enharmonic”, “chromatic”, and “diatonic” (rendered here with the root d'.)
Tetrachords after Archytas of Tarent (428–347 B.C.)
- Enharmonic
28/27 36/35 5/4, with perfect major third - Chromatic
28/27 15/14 6/5, with perfect minor third - Diatonic
28/27 9/8 8/7, with seventh whole tone
Tetrachords after Aristoxenos (370–300 B.C.)
- Enharmonion: quarter tone + quarter tone + 2 tone
- Chroma malakon: third tone + third tone + 11/6 tone
- Chroma hemiolon: 3/8 tone + 3/8 tone + 7/4 tone
- Chroma toniaion: semitone + semitone + 3/2 tone
- Diatonon malakon: semitone + 3/4 tone + 5/4 tone
- Diatonon syntonon: semitone + tone + tone
Tetrachords after Didymos Chalkénteros (63 B.C.–10 A.D.)
- Enharmonic
32/31 31/30 5/4, with perfect major third - Chromatic
16/15 25/24 6/5, with perfect minor third - Diatonic
16/15 10/9 9/8, with major and minor whole tone
Further Tetrachords
- “European”
9/8 10/9 16/15, corresponds to major with perfect third - “Oriental”
10/9 11/10 12/11, corresponds to Rast with neutral (Arabic) third - Tempered: whole tone + whole tone + semitone