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Shi Er Lü (Chinese: ???, Pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: shí èr lu), literally translated as 12 pitches
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
, sometimes named as Chinese chromatic scale .It is one kind of Chromatic scale
Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve Pitch es, each a semitone or half step apart. "A chromatic scale is a diatonic scale consisting entirely of half-step interval ," having, "no tonic ," due to the symmetry or equal spacing of its tones....
 used in ancient Music of China
Music of China

The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty ....
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Shi Er Lü (Chinese: ???, Pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: shí èr lu), literally translated as 12 pitches
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
, sometimes named as Chinese chromatic scale .It is one kind of Chromatic scale
Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve Pitch es, each a semitone or half step apart. "A chromatic scale is a diatonic scale consisting entirely of half-step interval ," having, "no tonic ," due to the symmetry or equal spacing of its tones....
 used in ancient Music of China
Music of China

The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty ....
. The Chinese scaling is using the same calculations as Pythagoras
Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionians Ancient Greeks mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mysticism and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions to mathematics and natural philosophy....
 did, based on 2:3 ratios (8:9, 16:27, 64:81, etc.).

Note Names

  • ?? (Huáng Zhong)
  • ?? (Dà Lu)
  • ?? (Tài Cù)
  • ?? (Jiá Zhong)
  • ?? (Gu Xian)
  • ?? (Zhòng Lu)
  • ?? (Ruí Bin)
  • ?? (Lín Zhong)
  • ?? (Yí Zé)
  • ?? (Nán Lu)
  • ?? (Wú Yì)
  • ?? (Yìng Zhong)
12 total, for one octave
Octave

In music, an octave The octave is occasionally referred to as a diapason.The octave above an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated 8va, and the octave below 8vb....
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Modality

See also

  • Chinese musicology
    Chinese musicology

    Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music. This discipline has a very long history....


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