Just thought I'd tell you all about some research I did a couple of summers ago. I found out the maximum number of notes that different scale forms have in common with each other and wrote it all down in a table. Modes of the same scale were discounted. I have about 40 scale forms down between 5 and 8 notes/octave. Using the "scale affinity table" it's possible to find ways of moving between different scale forms altering only one note at a time (the assumption being that this reduces discords).
If you want to see it go to http://www.Classaxe.com (my brother's website) then click on friends, then Andrew F., then Music theory. My brother posted it all on his site which was cool of him.
If you find any mistakes (e.g. wrong values) please let me know so I can change them.
Feel free to use or distribute the information (short of selling it on which would kinda defeat the spirit of this whole thing and would piss me off given the work I put in) to friends or whoever.
Hope you find it useful.
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