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Tetrachordal 24TET scales

🔗oljare@...

11/16/2013 5:30:16 AM

There's a total of 8 different 7-note scales of two identical tetrachords using quarter tones. There's the ones that use neutral and major seconds only, like the "pure" neutral third MOS, which is almost never used in any cultures around the world as far as i know: C D- E- F G A- B- C

And the altered version, which is more common, known as Maqam Rast among other names:
C D E- F G A B- C

Then there's the ones that use minor and supermajor seconds as well, which are the most interesting ones out of the bunch.

This seems to be known as the "soft diatonic" according to several sources, but i can't seem to figure out if or where it has ever been used. From what i can see, it seems to be more of a theoretical construct that has never been used for actual music:

C Db D+ F G Ab A+ C

Then there's the other variants, one which can be called the inverse soft diatonic:

C D+ E F G A+ B C

And two more, inverses of each other:

C Db E- F G Ab B- C

C D- E F G A- B C

Does anyone know if any of these modes have been used, or at least described before? What name were they given, if any?