Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts. By Michiel Schuijer.

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-725
Author(s):  
M. Russ
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Pitch Class

Generic (Mod-7) Voice-Leading Spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-207
Author(s):  
Leah Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Topological Space ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Voice Leading ◽  
Pitch Class ◽  
Mathematical Properties ◽  
Pitch Class Sets

This article constructs generic voice-leading spaces by combining geometric approaches to voice leading with diatonic set theory. Unlike the continuous mod-12 spaces developed by Callender, Quinn, and Tymoczko, these mod-7 spaces are fundamentally discrete. The mathematical properties of these spaces derive from the properties of diatonic pitch-class sets and generic pitch spaces developed by Clough and Hook. After presenting the construction of these voice-leading spaces and defining the OPTIC relations in mod-7 space, this article presents the mod-7 OPTIC-, OPTI-, OPT-, and OP-spaces of two- and three-note chords. The final section of the study shows that, although the discrete mod-7 versions of these lattices appear quite different from their continuous mod-12 counterparts, the topological space underlying each of these graphs depends solely on the number of notes in the chords and the particular OPTIC relations applied.

Diatonic Connotations of Pitch-Class Sets

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Van Egmond ◽  
David Butler
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Tonal Music ◽  
Pitch Class ◽  
Tonal Pitch ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pitch Class Sets

This is a music-theoretical study of the relationship of two-, three-, four-, five-, and six-member subsets of the major (pure minor), harmonic minor, and melodic (ascending) minor reference collections, using pitchclass set analytic techniques. These three collections will be referred to as the diatonic sets. Several new terms are introduced to facilitate the application of pitch-class set theory to descriptions of tonal pitch relations and to retain characteristic intervallic relationships in tonal music typically not found in discussions of atonal pitch-class relations. The description comprises three parts. First, pitch sets are converted to pitchclass sets. Second, the pitch- class sets are categorized by transpositional types. Third, the relations of these transpositional types are described in terms of their key center and modal references to the three diatonic sets. Further, it is suggested that the probability of a specific key interpretation by a listener may depend on the scale-degree functions of the tones.

Introduction to Pitch-Class Set Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-110
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Pitch Class

scholarly journals Interval Permutations

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew F. Nobile
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Song Cycle ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Pitch Class ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pitch Class Sets

This paper presents a framework for analyzing the interval structure of pitch-class segments (ordered pitch-class sets). An “interval permutation” is a reordering of the intervals that arise between adjacent members of these pitch-class segments. Because pitch-class segments related by interval permutation are not necessarily members of the same set-class, this theory has the capability to demonstrate aurally significant relationships between sets that are not related by transposition or inversion. I begin with a theoretical investigation of interval permutations followed by a discussion of the relationship of interval permutations to traditional pitch-class set theory, specifically focusing on how various set-classes may be related by interval permutation. A final section applies these theories to analyses of several songs from Schoenberg’s op. 15 song cycle The Book of the Hanging Gardens.

A Course on Set Theory

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Schimmerling
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory

Set Theory

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory
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