In Western music theory, we primarily use what’s called heptatonic scales: scales consisting of seven musical notes at a time. These scales can all be derived from the Western ...

We call the scale ‘pentatonic’ because it contains just five notes, as opposed to the seven notes found in the conventional heptatonic scales of most Western music. Play just the black notes of a ...

Radhika Iyer and Matt Bacon’s work, Elements of Indian Music — Melakarta: The System of 72 Heptatonic Scales, has the collection of fundamental musica ...

Do you remember good old Musical Chef? The guy who tugged at his musical dough and created the Heptatonic scale after making the dough release its sweetness 12 times?