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Musical Scale Systems

Musical Scale Systems is a theoretical construct in comparative musicology that comprises the organized arrangements of pitches, defined by specific intervallic relationships, used within a musical tradition to structure melodic and harmonic practices.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Pitch as a Medium: A New Approach to Psychophysical Scaling

Fred Attneave, Richard K. Olson · The American Journal of Psychology · 1971 · 346 citations

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Humans Rapidly Learn Grammatical Structure in a New Musical Scale

Psyche Loui, David Wessel, Carla L. Hudson Kam · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2010 · 204 citations · Full text

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Variety and Multiplicity in Diatonic Systems

John Clough, Gerald Myerson · Journal of Music Theory · 1985 · 166 citations

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A Biological Rationale for Musical Scales

Kamraan Z. Gill, Dale Purves · PLoS ONE · 2009 · 147 citations · Full text

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Musical Scales of Various Nations 1

Nature · 1885 · 139 citations · Full text

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Authors

166

  1. JD
    Jack Douthett

    Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States

    6 publications · 104 citations

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  2. JC
    John Clough

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    5 publications · 334 citations

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  3. RK
    Richard Krantz

    Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States

    4 publications · 51 citations

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  4. JS
    Joren Six

    Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

    4 publications · 114 citations

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  5. PQ
    Peter Q. Pfordresher

    University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States

    4 publications · 138 citations

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Institutions

76

  1. University at Buffalo, State University of New York

    Buffalo, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    138 citations

  2. Keio University

    Tokyo, Japan

    3 h-index

    15 publications

    474 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    95 citations

  4. Ghent University Hospital

    Ghent, Belgium

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    95 citations

  5. Metropolitan State University of Denver

    Denver, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    40 citations

  6. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    62 citations

  7. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    85 citations

  8. Eastman Chemical Company (Germany)

    Cologne, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    27 citations

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  1. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 10 publications · 386 citations

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  2. Journal of Mathematics and Music

    8 publications · 177 citations

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  3. Journal of Music Theory

    7 publications · 406 citations

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  4. Perception & Psychophysics

    4 publications · 108 citations

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  5. Journal of New Music Research

    4 publications · 72 citations

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