5 notes · Forte 5-35

Circle 31

Pentatonic — major & minor pentatonic

C1G2D3A4EBG♭D♭A♭E♭B♭F0
Drawn with C as tonic at position 1, the proposed reading. Major and minor triads shown inside.
1F01C11G21D31A4
Binary
11111
Chain
Unbroken
Prime form
(02479)
Interval vector
⟨032140⟩
Transpositions
12
Mirror
Its own inversion
Triads
Dm F
Sevenths
Dm7

Songs in this circle

1 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 · EPlay
1—F · C · G · D · APlay
2—B♭ · F · C · G · DPlay
3—E♭ · B♭ · F · C · GPlay
4—A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · CPlay

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