Shi'er lü

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title: Shi'er lü
text: Shi'er lü is a standardized gamut of twelve notes used in ancient Chinese music. It is also known, rather misleadingly, as the Chinese chromatic scale; it was only one kind of chromatic scale used in ancient Chinese music. The shi'er lü uses the same intervals as the Pythagorean scale, based on 3:2 ratios. The gamut or its subsets were used for tuning and are preserved in bells and pipes. Unlike the Western chromatic scale, the shi'er lü was not used as a scale in its own right; it is rather a s
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description: Set of notes used in Chinese music
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date created: 2007-06-25T04:20:13Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T21:04:20Z
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