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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811066403321

Autore

Derfler Brandon Joel

Titolo

Single-voice transformations [[electronic resource] ] : a model for parsimonious voice leading / / by Brandon Derfler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

ISBN

1-282-58823-0

9786612588235

1-4438-1894-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

781.2/37

Soggetti

Music theory - Mathematics

Harmony

Musical intervals and scales

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; CHAPTER 6; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This study demonstrates how smooth voice leading in music can be effectively modeled using concepts from abstract algebra. Minute voice-leading displacements are explained as iterations of the basic operation, the single-semitone transformation (SST). The SST is a type of transformation in which only a single voice in a chord is transposed by a semitone. Unlike previous music theoretic studies, the SST model does not rely on twelve-tone operations on sets to determine voice-leading paths. SST...