Examples
- In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter explains how Shepard scales can be used on the Canon a 2, per tonos in Bach's Musical Offering (called the Endlessly Rising Canon by Hofstadter) for making the modulation end in the same pitch instead of an octave higher.
- In The Dark Knight and the follow up The Dark Knight Rises a Shepard tone was used to create the sound of the 'Batpod' - a motorcycle that the filmmakers didn't want to change gear and tone abruptly but to constantly ascend.
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