12 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Whole Tone Musical Scales"

Whole tone scale on B. Created by Hyacinth (talk) 01:01, 6 July 2010 using Sibelius 5.

This is a whole tone scale beginning on middle-C, created by me using Lilypond and TiMidity.

Slendro vs whole tone scale on C

The opening theme to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade is, "simply a descending whole-tone scale with diatonic trimmings." See Abraham, Gerald. "The Whole-Tone Scale in Russian Music", p.602, The Musical Times, Vol. 74, No. 1085. (Jul., 1933), pp. 602-604.[non-whole-tone scale notes in red].

Use of the whole tone scale in Debussy's Voiles (1910), Prelude. 2, mm.1-4.

English: Chopin Prelude, Op. 20, No. 10 (1832) opening. Consecutive diminished seventh chords as whole tone scale harmony. Piston analyses viio as Vo9 with a missing root.

Regular diatonic tuning 53-tone. A regular diatonic tuning is five "whole tones", T, and two half tones, S, arranged in any rotation of TTSTTTS.

Regular diatonic tuning 31-tone. A regular diatonic tuning is five "whole tones", T, and two half tones, S, arranged in any rotation of TTSTTTS.

Janacek Sinfonietta 2nd movement, opening bars

Regular diatonic tuning 72-tone. A regular diatonic tuning is five "whole tones", T, and two half tones, S, arranged in any rotation of TTSTTTS. In 12-tone, T=200 cents and S=100 cents. In 72-tone, T=233.3 cents and S=16.6. This is that scale: C = 0 D = 233.3 E# = 466.6 F# = 483.3 G = 716.6 A = 950 B# = 1183.3 C = 1200

The intro to L'Isle Joyeuse, by Claude Debussy. Created by Hyacinth (talk) 06:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC) using Sibelius 5.

Mystic chord on C as the 1, 11, 7, 5, 13, and 9th harmonics (harmonics 8 through 14, without 12). 1 = C = 0 cents = unison 11 = F↑ = 551.32 cents = eleventh harmonic 7 = B♭ = 968.83 cents = harmonic seventh 5 = E = 386.31 cents = just major third 13 = A♭ = 840.53 cents = thirteenth harmonic 9 = D = 203.91 cents = large just whole tone