%0 Journal Article %1 carey1989aspects %A Carey, Norman %A Clampitt, David %D 1989 %I University of California Press on behalf of the Society for Music Theory %J Music Theory Spectrum %K DLfrage Musiktheorie Musik MaMu %N 2 %P pp. 187-206 %R 10.1525/mts.1989.11.2.02a00030 %T Aspects of Well-Formed Scales %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/745935 %V 11 %X Pentatonic, diatonic, and chromatic scales share the same underlying structure, that of the well-formed scale. Well-formedness is defined in terms of a relationship between the order in which a single interval generates the elements of a pitch-class set and the order in which those elements appear in a scale. Another characterization provides a recursive procedure for organizing all well-formed scales into hierarchies. Finally, well-formed scales are defined in terms of scale-step measure, and aspects of the diatonic set are examined.

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