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FIG. 9.2.
Key to the keys
Note: A tip for finding these charts quickly in future: 
trim 2 mm. off the margin of the left-hand page.
circumstances when an intermediate step between the naturals is required. In the Ionian and Aeolian keys (cf. p. 231) and in Hypodorian, many of the standing notes are represented by second sharps. The next note up, if it is a lower movable, is then represented by the adjacent natural. The upper movable will be the second sharp of this natural in the enharmonic and chromatic genera, and in the diatonic either the next natural up or, if this is only a semitone up from the preceding natural, its second sharp.
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(Phrygian 37, 38, 41, 46 instead of 37, 38, 42, 46). This may represent Aristoxenus' 'soft diatonic' tuning (see p. 169), i.e. c' 0257-002.giff'. So too, apparently, in 7.

 
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