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whole tone scale

scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by a whole tone; in 12-tone equal temperament, there are only two complementary whole tone scales
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Summary

whole tone scale is a modes of limited transposition[1]. It draws 157 Wikipedia views per month (modes_of_limited_transposition category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • whole tone scale's image is recorded as Whole tone scale on C.png[3].
  • whole tone scale's instance of is recorded as modes of limited transposition[4].
  • whole tone scale's based on is recorded as augmented chord[5].
  • whole tone scale's Commons category is recorded as Whole tone musical scales[6].
  • whole tone scale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0svmy[7].
  • whole tone scale's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/whole-tone-scale[8].
  • whole tone scale's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as whole-tone-scales[9].
  • whole tone scale's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 111368368[10].
  • whole tone scale's Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID is recorded as 2764[11].

Why It Matters

whole tone scale draws 157 Wikipedia views per month (modes_of_limited_transposition category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_whole-tone-scale_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{whole tone scale}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/whole-tone-scale}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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