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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: Everything that spills out past the seven diatonic notes.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Scales
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> *Everything that spills out past the seven diatonic notes.*
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## Overview
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The scales that live outside the seven diatonic [Modes](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/modes) — eight notes covering the altered minors, the pentatonics, and the symmetrical scales, each documented with its structure, its character, and its use in practice.
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The altered minors first: the [Harmonic Minor](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/harmonic-minor), with a knife hidden in its raised seventh, and the [Melodic Minor](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/melodic-minor), a major scale that never got over its lowered third. Then the pentatonics, where subtraction does the work — the [Major Pentatonic](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/major-pentatonic), five notes that cannot make a wrong sound, and the [Minor Pentatonic](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/minor-pentatonic), five notes carrying a whole century of feeling. Add one bruise of a blue note to the latter and you have the [Blues Scale](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/blues-scale).
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The symmetrical scales close the set: the [Chromatic Scale](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/chromatic-scale), every door in the building at once; the [Whole Tone](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/whole-tone) scale, a staircase where every step is the same height; and the [Diminished](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/scales/diminished) scale, alternating patience and menace.
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## Related
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- [Scales & Modes](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes) — the parent index
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- [Modes](/knowledge/music/scales-and-modes/modes) — the seven diatonic rotations
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- [Musical Keys](/knowledge/music/musical-keys) — the keys the scales are transposed into
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