Exploring Tetrachordal Voice-Leading Spaces Within and Around the Morris Constellation

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ID4390928
AuthorsMark Sallmen (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume17
Issue4
Publication date2011-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMusic Theory Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-3040 • E-ISSN: 1067-3040
PublisherSociety for Music Theory (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.30535/mto.17.4.2
OpenAlexW1490560422
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited37

Building on Robert Morris's (1990) research on hexachordal ZC-relations, Stephen Soderberg (1998) identifies a constellation of ten hexachords that embed either one diminished seventh chord or two diminished triads. Soderberg divides the constellation, called MORRIS (or T-HEX), into four overlapping eight-hexachord sub-constellations based on tetrachordal subset content. The first of these sub-constellations, TRISTAN, includes the hexachords that embed two instances of set class 4-27[0258], the set class of the major-minor and half-diminished seventh chords. Similarly, constellations ZAUBER, AGITATION, and BROODING include the hexachords that embed two instances of set classes 4-18[0147], 4-13[0136], and 4-12[0236]

Astronomy · Constellation · Physics · Computer Science · Mathematics · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Artificial Intelligence

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