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Scale Sieve
A command-line sieve that finds every scale hiding inside a chord, then ranks them by how strange they sound.
Give Scale Sieve a handful of notes and it returns every scale, mode and synthetic scale that contains them, ranked by strangeness. Strangeness is a measure of how far the scale drifts from the diatonic family. We use it to break out of the same three keys.
$ scale-sieve C Eb G Bb
1. C dorian ●○○○○
2. C aeolian ●○○○○
3. C phrygian ●●○○○
...
14. C ultralocrian ●●●●○
Install
Download the archive, unzip it, and put scale-sieve somewhere on your
PATH. There are no dependencies and nothing phones home.
Changelog
- 0.3.1: fixes enharmonic spelling in flat keys.
- 0.3.0: adds the strangeness ranking and
--jsonoutput.