links

http://www.maqamworld.com/
http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/world/raga/intro3.html
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/gamelan/gamelanVT6.html
http://home.swipnet.se/freakguitar/scales.html
http://www.angelfire.com/id/bass/
Telemanns 53-tET system http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/telemann.html
http://www.aei.ca/~plamothe/india.htm#sh-treillis
http://www.arts.ilstu.edu/~staylor/setfinder/index.html (setfinder)

a scale dictionary

// some of these names are the names that musicians give to the scales
// and have no accurate relation to their actual origin.
// no microtuning here, all equal tempered.

z = (
// 5 note scales
minorPentatonic: [0,3,5,7,10],
majorPentatonic: [0,2,4,7,9],
ritusen: [0,2,5,7,9], // another mode of major pentatonic
egyptian: [0,2,5,7,10], // another mode of major pentatonic

kumoi: [0,2,3,7,9],
hirajoshi: [0,2,3,7,8],
iwato: [0,1,5,6,10], // mode of hirajoshi
chinese: [0,4,6,7,11], // mode of hirajoshi
indian: [0,4,5,7,10],
pelog: [0,1,3,7,8],

prometheus: [0,2,4,6,11],
scriabin: [0,1,4,7,9],

// 6 note scales
whole: (0,2..10),
augmented: [0,3,4,7,8,11],
augmented2: [0,1,4,5,8,9],

// hexatonic modes with no tritone
hexMajor7: [0,2,4,7,9,11],
hexDorian: [0,2,3,5,7,10],
hexPhrygian: [0,1,3,5,8,10],
hexSus: [0,2,5,7,9,10],
hexMajor6: [0,2,4,5,7,9],
hexAeolian: [0,3,5,7,8,10],

// 7 note scales
ionian: [0,2,4,5,7,9,11],
dorian: [0,2,3,5,7,9,10],
phrygian: [0,1,3,5,7,8,10],
lydian: [0,2,4,6,7,9,11],
mixolydian: [0,2,4,5,7,9,10],
aeolian: [0,2,3,5,7,8,10],
locrian: [0,1,3,5,6,8,10],

harmonicMinor: [0,2,3,5,7,8,11],
harmonicMajor: [0,2,4,5,7,8,11],

melodicMinor: [0,2,3,5,7,9,11],
bartok: [0,2,4,5,7,8,10], // jazzers call this the hindu scale

// raga modes
todi: [0,1,3,6,7,8,11], // maqam ahar kurd
purvi: [0,1,4,6,7,8,11],
marva: [0,1,4,6,7,9,11],
bhairav: [0,1,4,5,7,8,11],
ahirbhairav: [0,1,4,5,7,9,10],

superLocrian: [0,1,3,4,6,8,10],
romanianMinor: [0,2,3,6,7,9,10], // maqam nakriz
hungarianMinor: [0,2,3,6,7,8,11],
neapolitanMinor: [0,1,3,5,7,8,11],
enigmatic: [0,1,4,6,8,10,11],
spanish: [0,1,4,5,7,8,10],

// modes of whole tones with added note:
leadingWhole: [0,2,4,6,8,10,11],
lydianMinor: [0,2,4,6,7,8,10],
neapolitanMajor: [0,1,3,5,7,9,11],
locrianMajor: [0,2,4,5,6,8,10],

// 8 note scales
diminished: [0,1,3,4,6,7,9,10],
diminished2: [0,2,3,5,6,8,9,11],

// 12 note scales
chromatic: (0..11),

// some raga modes from asawari thata
// without pakads (movements) or vakras (twists)

aswari_aroh: [ 0, 2, 5, 7, 9, 0 ],
aswari_avaroh: [ 0, 2, 4, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 ],
jonpuri_aroh: [ 0, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10 ],
jonpuri_avaroh: [ 0, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 ],
durbai_kandra: [ 0, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 ],
desi_aroh: [ 0, 2, 5, 7, 10 ],
desi_avaroh: [ 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 ],
gandhari_aroh: [ 0, 2, 5, 7, 10 ],
gandhari_avaroh: [ 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 ],
khut_aroh: [ 0, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 ],
khut_avaroh: [ 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 ],
jeelaf_aroh: [ 0, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 ],
jeelaf_avaroh: [ 0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 ],
gopika_basant_aroh: [ 0, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ],
gopika_basant_avaroh: [ 0, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 ],
abheeri_aroh: [ 0, 3, 5, 7, 10 ],
abheeri_avaroh: [ 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 ]

);

Authors so far:

• James McCartney
• asawari thata: Julian Rohrhuber