Chinese scales

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In traditional Chinese music , the octave is divided into 12 semitones , which are referred to as twelve Lü ( Chinese  十二律 , Pinyin shí'èrlǜ ). These only roughly correspond to the European chromatic scale .

Five different modes are formed from this set of tones, each of which can be built on one of the twelve lows, resulting in a total of 60 tones :

  • Gōng ( 宮 ; approximately: cdega)
  • Shāng ( 商 ; approximate: dega c ')
  • Jué ( 角 ; approximate: egac 'd')
  • Zhǐ ( 徴 ; approximately: gac 'd' e ')
  • Yǔ ( 羽 ; approximate: ac 'd' e 'g')

These pentatonic scales are predominant in traditional Chinese music, but heptatonic scales also occur (see also the article Chinese Music # Tone System ).

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