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
Hexatonic scale Hexatonic scale In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Famous examples include the whole tone scale, C D E F G A C; the augmented scale, C D E G A B C; the Prometheus scale, C D E F A B C; and the blues scale, C E F G G B C. A hexatonic scale can also be formed by stacking perfect fifths. This results in a diatonic scale with one note removed (for example, A C D E F G). The whole tone scale is a