Downloads

You may download a list of all the scales. It is in comma-delimited csv format. The columns are:

n_notes: The number of notes in the scale.
scale_no: The number of the scale using the scale numbering system of this site (explained in the 'Introduction'). Modes that have the same scale_no (and the same n_notes) are modes of each other. Thus "Dorian" and "Mixolydian" have the same scale_no.
mode_name: The name of the mode.
semitones: The semitone sequence of the mode. For example, the semitone sequence of the Major Scale is 2212221 (whole-step = 2 semitones, whole, half-step = 1 semitone, whole, whole, whole, half). On the scales pages, this corresponds to choosing 'Scale Number Format = Big-Endian Semitone Steps'.

For example, the first data row in the .csv reads as follows:

n_notes, scale_no, mode_name, semitones

3, 1, Minoric, 444

In other words:

n_notes: This is a 3-note scale.
scale_no: This is 'scale number 1' in the 3-note scales.
mode_name: The name of the mode is 'Minoric'.
semitones: The semitone sequence is 444: given any starting note (the first note of the scale), go up 4 semitones to the second note of the scale, then another 4 notes to the third note of the scale, then another 4 notes to the last note of the scale (which will always be one octave above the first).