Akebono scale

The Akebono scale is a musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music. Akebono and the Diatonic scale use the same intervals, but Akebono has no fixed tonic; as such, any Akebono note can be the tonic.

The 1891 Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan describes the scale:

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For short transitions the simple pressure on the 4th and its octave gth would be sufficient; for longer cheerful compositions however Akebono was invented. This tuning, and other variations already noticed are not recognized by the Japanese as choshi: they are called te; and it is not necessary in these subordinate tunings, invented purely for convenience, to look for diatonic scale notes.^[1]

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References

↑ Asiatic Society of Japan (1891). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Asiatic Society of Japan. pp. 346–. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

Musical scales (list)

Main Western

Types

Name

Ethnic origin

Modes

Modes in Western music

Gregorian

Authentic	Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian

Plagal	Hypodorian Hypophrygian Hypolydian Hypomixolydian

Other

Diatonic

Jazz minor

Number of tones

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