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Circle 381

Melodic minor — acoustic scale

C3G4D5A6EB8G♭D♭A♭E♭0B♭F2
Drawn with C as tonic at position 3, the proposed reading. Major and minor triads shown inside.
1E♭00·11F21C31G41D51A60·71B8
Binary
101111101
Chain
With gaps
Prime form
(013468t)
Interval vector
⟨254442⟩
Transpositions
12
Mirror
Its own inversion
Triads
Cm Dm F G
Sevenths
Cm(maj7) Dm7 F7 G7 Am7♭5 Bm7♭5

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 · D · A · E · B · F♯ · G♯Play
2—B♭ · C · G · D · A · E · F♯Play
3—E♭ · F · C · G · D · A · BPlay
4—A♭ · B♭ · F · C · G · D · EPlay
5—D♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · C · G · APlay
6—G♭ · A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · F · C · DPlay
8—F♭ · G♭ · D♭ · A♭ · E♭ · B♭ · CPlay

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