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Music theory

a collection of pitch classes spread as evenly as possible around the octave, a property shared by the diatonic and other common scales.

In music theory, maximally even set refers to a collection of pitch classes spread as evenly as possible around the octave, a property shared by the diatonic and other common scales. This meaning comes from Clough (1991) in Journal of Music Theory.[1]

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evenness3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs octave2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs pitch3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Clough, J., & Douthett, J. (1991). Maximally Even Sets. Journal of Music Theory, 35(1/2), 93. https://doi.org/10.2307/843811

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