Analysis Course 3 · Professional
Church modes across tuning systems
Hear seven modes, read cent deviations, and place their historical sound function.
Station 1 of 7
Reading cents means reading relationships
Zero cents means equality with the equal-tempered reference, not acoustic purity. Positive values are higher, negative values lower. What matters for a mode is the relation among its degrees; in playback C is therefore aligned across systems.
Playback tempo
Demonstration sound
| Note | ET (Hz) | Pythag. (¢) | Meantone (¢) | Vallotti (¢) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | ||||
| D | ||||
| E | ||||
| F | ||||
| G | ||||
| A | ||||
| B |
💡 Click any value to hear its exact frequency
above ETbelow ET≈ ET