8 notes · Forte 8-23

Circle 255

Bebop dominant

C1G2D3A4E5B6G♭7D♭A♭E♭B♭F0
Drawn with C as tonic at position 1, the proposed reading. Major and minor triads shown inside.
1F01C11G21D31A41E51B61G♭7
Binary
11111111
Chain
Unbroken
Prime form
(0123578t)
Interval vector
⟨465472⟩
Transpositions
12
Mirror
Its own inversion
Triads
C D Dm Em F G Am Bm
Sevenths
Cmaj7 D7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 G♭m7♭5 Gmaj7 G7 Am7 Bm7 Bm7♭5

Songs in this circle

48 songs share this shape in a passage or across their whole harmonic analysis. Matching is exact under transposition, regardless of the tonic.

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Positions of the tonic

This chain has gaps or is not seven notes long: positions have no mode names. We speak of positions, and nothing else. Each row keeps C as tonic and moves the other notes around it.

PositionNameNotes from C, in fifths
0—C · G · D · A · E · B · F♯ · C♯Play
1—F · C · G · D · A · E · B · G♭Play
2—B♭ · F · C · G · D · A · E · BPlay
3—E♭ · B♭ · F · C · G · D · A · EPlay
4—A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · C · G · D · APlay
5—D♭ · A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · C · G · DPlay
6—G♭ · D♭ · A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · C · GPlay
7—B · G♭ · D♭ · A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · CPlay

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