"modal compass" diagram. see alt text for a description.

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interesting construction of various diatonic scales from page 126 of Tymoczko's "A Geometry of Music"

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You don’t expect to hear a major scale coming from the engine of an electric locomotive – it feels as if the engineer must have designed it in as an easter egg! 😊

Finishing on an jarringly sharp supertonic is the icing on the cake though 😬

There’s nearly half an hour of this for your pleasure/distress (with a few bonus descending scales at the end!):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-IC-JRJYwc

(Thanks to @cinebox for drawing it to my attention)

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"What Makes Music Universal", Nautilus (https://nautil.us/issue/99/universality/what-makes-music-universal).

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