<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mark:<div><br></div><div>Another great wholetone example is Stereolab's "Black Ants in Sound-Dust" from <i>Sound Dust</i>. The piece is based on Scriabin's Mystic Chord (I verified this with Tim Gane via the band's manager, Martin Pike, a few years back), which is of course 5 of 6 notes from the wholetone scale. Beginning with a clearly arpeggiated mystic chord on C4, the piece then has an ascending bass-line wholetone scale from C3 to C4, stated three times. For the fourth statement, the G# switches to A, thus turning the wholetone scale into the mystic chord that began the piece. The same thing happens with a descending wholetone line as well. A nice interplay between the chord and the scale, I should say.</div><div><br></div><div>And Regina Spektor has a nice wholetone scale, also with centric pitch C, in "Twenty Years of Snow" from <i>Begin to Hope</i>. Works well with the overall key of C major.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>-Phil<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br>Philip Ewell, Ph.D.</div><div>Assistant Professor of Music Theory</div><div>Hunter College and the Graduate Center</div>City University of New York<div>695 Park Ave</div><div>NY NY 10065</div><div>Work: 212-396-6253</div><div><a href="mailto:pewell@hunter.cuny.edu">pewell@hunter.cuny.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://www.philipewell.com">www.philipewell.com</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 27, 2010, at 7:25 PM, <a href="mailto:arne0102@umn.edu">arne0102@umn.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Hi everyone,<br><br>I'm looking for examples of popular songs (any genre) that employ equal division of the octave.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Mark Arneson<br>University of Minnesota<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a><br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>