ianring: Look up a scale at Ian Ring's _Exciting Universe of Music...

In musicMCT: Analyze the Structure of Musical Scales

Look up a scale at Ian Ring's Exciting Universe of Music Theory

Description

Ian Ring's website The Exciting Universe of Music Theory is a comprehensive and useful compilation of information about pitch-class sets in twelve-tone equal temperament. It tracks many properties that musicMCT is unlikely to duplicate, so this function opens the corresponding page for a pc-set in your browser. This only works for sets in 12-edo which include pitch-class 0.

Usage

ianring(set, is_interactive = NULL)

Arguments

set	Numeric vector of pitch-classes in the set
is_interactive	Is the function being called in an interactive setting where it makes sense to open a browser window? Defaults to NULL, in which case interactive() is used to determine the answer.

Value

Invisibly, the integer which Ring's site uses to index the input set. The main purpose of the function is its side effect of opening a page of Ring's site in a browser.

Examples

c_major <- c(0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11)
c_major_value <- ianring(c_major, is_interactive=FALSE)
print(c_major_value)
# And indeed you should find information about the major scale
# at https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/2741


# Set is_interactive to TRUE below to open the website in a
# browser window.
ianring(c(0, 2, 3, 7, 8), is_interactive=FALSE)

musicMCT documentation built on June 21, 2026, 9:06 a.m.