ABOUT THIS BOOK:

What you have here is a list of musical scales. You can find any collection of notes from 1 to 12 tones somewhere in it. The format is made to be a practical reference or journal. I've been working on it for a while now, trying to make a sourcebook for my own work thatʼs orderly and useful. None of the data in here is new to the world, but the delivery system is something I've designed to be simple and intuitive.

Numbers: There are 351 shapes in the book. This isn't arbitrary - it's what you get when you find all of the unique note formations that are possible with 12 tones (2048) and then group them into families of modes from the same scale. You can arrive at a lower numbers of basic structures if you say that mirror images are sonically equivalent. But if you hear a major and minor triad as qualitatively different, ...