Talk:Yo scale

Improvement

For something I didn't believe existed this article has improved quite a bit. Hyacinth (talk) 19:45, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

semitones

First the articles states none, then it illustrates that the scales consists of semitones

defined by ascending intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones. It is the fourth mode of the major pentatonic scale. An example yo scale, expressed in western pitch names, is: D - E - G - A - B. This is illustrated below.

I think what is meant is composed of whole + semitone values. In any case, it's a mess.Mwasheim (talk) 22:41, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

If you assume familiarity only with the C major scale, it makes a strange kind of sense to refer to any notes off that scale as "semitones", i.e. they "must" be reached by moving a semitone away from a C major note. This appears to be what happened. Since this was from so long ago, I went ahead and changed it to "minor notes" — which is useful when comparing with the in scale, so I've also changed that page. However, this is still flawed, and could use help from someone with more music knowledge than I.

Other major scales have sharps/flats without the "eerie" character of western minor scales or the "dark" character of the in scale; what would be the proper term for the flats on the E and B in in scale, relative to yo scale, without including the flats(or sharps) in other major scales? — Darekun (talk) 04:33, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Contradiction

This article states that the Yo scale is not used in gagaku music, while the gagaku article states that it is. I'm assuming one or the other is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.83.100.27 (talk) 23:56, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm adding a contradiction template about this. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:35, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Notice that the assertion in this article is uncited while the contradictory assertion in the gagaku article is cited. Hyacinth (talk) 00:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Also referenced in pentatonic scale. Hyacinth (talk) 04:33, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

I have replaced the text "excluding gagaku and Buddhist chanting" in yo scale with "including gagaku and shomyo" and removed the contradiction tags. Hyacinth (talk) 04:33, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

This article contradicts the Japanese wikipedia "onkai" article, which gives D-E-G-A-C as "ritsu," not "yo." It gives "yo" as D-F-G-A-C-D. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%B3%E9%9A%8E#.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E3.81.AE.E9.9F.B3.E9.9A.8E — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soksopbai (talk • contribs) 11:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Problem

The text says the yo scale in D is D-E-G-A-B, but the second picture shows D-E-G-A-C. Which is right? --108.206.7.65 (talk) 22:31, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

It seems that you didn't look at the right side of the second picture or at the notes in parentheses in the first picture. Hyacinth (talk) 21:31, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

It's confusing because the article says, "It is defined by ascending intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones." To me this implies that those are the notes of the ascending scale; however, I think it was actually intended simply to mean that the intervals were being listed in ascending order. I don't want to edit it though because I don't really know anything about the scale, so I might be wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.141.69.177 (talk) 10:41, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

"Minor notes"

"The yo scale, which does not contain minor notes..." There is no such thing as a "minor note", but there are "minor intervals". I was going to edit to reflect this, but reverted when I realised that there are minor intervals in the scale. Would people be happy with: "...does not contain a minor third interval up from the root/tonic note"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hundovir (talk • contribs) 12:31, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Missing word in introduction

"The in scale is described as while the yo scale is described as 'bright' sounding." in is described as what? 2A01:E0A:5B0:D050:F4F9:34FF:FEAC:6411 (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2024 (UTC)