Outside of Equal Temperament, what decides the spelling of notes in a major scale?

1. What determines the name of a major scale?
2. What are the notes of natural major scale?
3. How out of tune is equal temperament?
4. What is the tempered scale?

What determines the name of a major scale?

Major scales are named for their first note, which is also their last note. Be sure to include any accidentals that apply to this note in its name. Scale degrees are solmization syllables notated by Arabic numerals with carets (angled brackets) above them.

What are the notes of natural major scale?

The sequence of intervals between the notes of a major scale is: whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half.
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The scale degrees are:

• 1st: Tonic.
• 2nd: Supertonic.
• 3rd: Mediant.
• 4th: Subdominant.
• 5th: Dominant.
• 6th: Submediant.
• 7th: Leading tone.
• 8th: Tonic.

How out of tune is equal temperament?

One of those tunings was already known to the ancients: equal temperament. Here the poison is distributed equally through the system: The distance between each interval is mathematically the same, so each interval is equally in, and slightly out of, tune. Nothing is perfect; nothing is terrible.

What is the tempered scale?

The equal tempered scale is the common musical scale used at present, used for the tuning of pianos and other instruments of relatively fixed scale. It divides the octave into 12 equal semitones. It is common practice to state musical intervals in cents, where 100¢ is defined as one equal tempered semitone.