Harmonic scale It was invented by Wendy Carlos and used on three pieces on her album "Beauty in the Beast" (1986): "Just Imaginings", "That's Just It", and "Yusae-Aisae". Versions of the scale have also been used by Ezra Sims and Frans Richter Herf. Though described by Carlos as containing "144 [= 12] distinct pitches to the octave", the twelve scales include 78 (= ) notes per octave. Technically there should then be duplicates and thus 57 (= 78 − 21) pitches (21 = ). For example, a perfect fifth above G (D) is the major tone above C. Harmonic scale The Harmonic
In scale and containing notes between them, as in the "miyako-bushi" scale used in "koto" and "shamisen" music and whose pitches are equivalent to the "in" scale: In Indian classical music, Gunkali (Hindustani) and Karnataka Shuddha Saveri (Carnatic) are nearly identical to the pentatonic "in" scale, highlighting the shared past of their origins. Some rare examples of ancient genres of Andean music (e.g. k'antu) use a scale similar to the "in" scale combined with melody leading with a parallel fifths and fourths. For example listen to "Machulas Kantu" by Bolivia Manta folk group ("Wiñayataqui", 1981). In scale The in" scale (also known