HOW TO TRANSLATE

JAPANESE

INTO GREEK

The descending form of a commonly-used Japanese scale goes like this:

By inserting two quartertones where the semitone intervals occur in the above scale, we octain the Ancient Greek Enharmonic Tetrachord pattern:

(Couper quartertone notation used here. No intent to imply exact twenty-fourths of an octave; in actual performance there would be considerable tolerance.)