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What classical music has a lot of enharmonic scale?

Asked by luigirovatti (2950points) March 23rd, 2022

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enharmonic_scale?wprov=sfla1

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Jeruba's avatar

I listen to a lot of classical music, but I never heard of this and can’t think of anything in the Western repertory that I’ve ever heard described in those terms.

seawulf575's avatar

I guess you could say all of them since “enharmonic” keys are two different keys that are just spelled differently. For instance, A sharp is the same as B flat. The only difference is when you write them on a page….where the note falls on the staff. If a musician or composer uses the key of A sharp, you could also say it is B flat

Jeruba's avatar

@seawulf575, not according to the article cited. Excerpt:

More broadly, an enharmonic scale is a scale in which (using standard notation) there is no exact equivalence between a sharpened note and the flattened note it is enharmonically related to, such as in the quarter tone scale. As an example, F♯ and G♭ are equivalent in a chromatic scale (the same sound is spelled differently), but they are different sounds in an enharmonic scale.

Strauss's avatar

Enharmonic scales occur when notes on a scale have a different name. An example of enharmonic notes would be, perhaps C# and Db (C sharp and D flat). They are both the same note, the black key just to the right of the C.

In some advanced theory, transcription and composition, there is a lot of talk about enharmonics in relation to microtones. Microtones are notes that fall “between the keys”, such as quartertones

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