Audio Examples for Kyle Gann's
The Arithmetic of Listening:
Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician

Chapter 3: Generating Scales

Some Scales from Ptolemy's Harmonika (2nd c. AD)

Aristoxenus's Enharmonic:
Ptolemy's Tense Chromatic:
Archytas's Diatonic:
Ptolemy's Even Diatonic:
Ptolemy's Tense Diatonic:

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